| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
ZING! is a nice little piece of software ...
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| 162.1 | What does it do? | LEIA::SWONGER | What, me worry? | Mon Nov 10 1986 08:32 | 2 |
What is it???
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| 162.2 | CLI Overlay | AUTHOR::MACDONALD | CUP/ML | Mon Nov 10 1986 09:11 | 7 |
Its a speedy CLI overlay that puts CLI into a nice menu and window
system. The file management portion is particularly nice. Runs faster
than plain-jane CLI. Everything is in the background. Various menus
get called up when you hit the right-A key plus a function key.
They have it running at Memory Location for anyone that is interested.
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| 162.3 | more... | JAKE::ACCIARDI | Mon Nov 10 1986 14:45 | 3 | |
I assume I can install it on all my system disks? How many $$$??
Does it replace the 'c' directory?
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| 162.4 | Yeth | AUTHOR::MACDONALD | CUP/ML | Mon Nov 10 1986 15:04 | 5 |
$79 .. yes it does. Comes with V1.2 Gamma by the way since it
requires V1.2 to run.
Works best with extra ram: for loading and reassigning the sys:c
directory (as is the case with the current c directory).
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| 162.5 | ex | AUTHOR::MACDONALD | CUP/ML | Mon Nov 10 1986 15:05 | 1 |
Of course you can only fit so much onto a 3 1/2" diskette. | |||||
| 162.6 | A hearty YES | HYSTER::DEARBORN | Trouvez Mieux | Mon Nov 24 1986 08:46 | 23 |
ZING! is fantastic. After months of working with CLI, this program
is a dream come true. It displays all files on the screen. You
can select the files by just clicking on them. They can be copied,
moved, run, printed, renamed, edited, typed, ect. directly by mouse
control. It uses VMS-like wildcards too.
It has a printer spooler built in (I can't seem to get it to work
yet tho...might be because it is the gamma version of 1.2)
I spent the weekend cleaning up all my disks. This tool made it
quite easy.
You can use ED directly through this program. Just double click
on the name of the file you want, then click on EDIT. Voila, you
are in ED. The same goes for TYPE. When the file is displayed,
it is displayed one screen at a time. You can use the function
keys to page forward or back through the file. You can display
the file as ACSII or binary.
I really like this one...
Randy
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| 162.7 | Can you substitute editors? | BACH::TENNY | Dave Tenny | Mon Nov 24 1986 08:53 | 3 |
Can you tell ZING which editor to use (like EMACS) when you hit the EDIT icon? | |||||
| 162.8 | AUTHOR::MACDONALD | CUP/ML | Mon Nov 24 1986 09:27 | 1 | |
Yes. | |||||
| 162.9 | Pick what you want | ELWOOD::PETERS | Mon Nov 24 1986 11:21 | 8 | |
RE .7
There is a logical set in the startup-sequence file to select
the editor you want.
Also there are logicals for where ZING is on disk, or in my
case RAM-disk.
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| 162.10 | Try C: for ZSPOOL | NCCSB::JFISHER | John B. Fisher @NCO (DTN 367-4259) | Fri Dec 05 1986 22:53 | 7 |
About the print spooler, it seems that the program ZSPOOL needs
to be located in C: for it to work correctly. One word of warning,
it does not seem to recognize and act on the 'CANCEL' gadget.
There are some problems with ZING!. It has the normal problems that
tend to be associated with a version 1 release. BUT I have to agree
that this is a very nice utility, very easy to use.
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