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Welcome to THE, The Hessling Editor.
INTRODUCTION
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THE is a full-screen character mode text editor based on the VM/CMS editor
XEDIT and some features of KEDIT for DOS written by Mansfield Software.
THE has currently been ported to most Unix systems, DOS, OS/2, Win32 and
a MS-Windows 3.1 version is also available as a shareware release.
As of release 2.2, THE also is available as a native X11 application.
An attempt has been made to port THE to VAX/VMS. Some major work is still
required. A port to the Amiga is currently being undertaken.
THE is known to run on SunOS 4.1.3, Solaris 2.x, Xenix-386, DOS,
OS/2 2.0+, Esix 4.0.3a, ATT SystemV 3.2, Linux, FreeBSD, AIX, HP-UX,
Ultrix, Sequent, Irix, DG/UX, OSF/1, Win95/NT.
THE should compile on any Unix system.
THE OS/2 port is similar to EPM, runs within an OS/2 command window and is
HPFS aware. THE also uses the OS/2 REXX interpreter to execute macro files.
An extensive interface exists between THE and REXX giving THE the complete
power of REXX.
REXX support is built in with the Extended DOS and the Win95/NT versions.
These versions use the free REXX interpreter, Regina, which is available
via ftp://ftp.pvv.unit.no/pub/rexx/regina-0.07a.tar.Z
THE OS/2 version uses the REXX interpreter that is supplied with OS/2.
For Unix ports, REXX support is available with Regina (see above) and with
REXX/imc (http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/users/ian.collier/Rexx/tarfiles.html)
Under the AIX platform, THE can also use REXX/6000, available from IBM.
THELIST: A Mailing list for announcements and discussion of THE.
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A mailing list has been created for discussion of THE. You can subscribe
to it by sending an email message to listserv@uiuc.edu with the body of
the email message containing:
SUBSCRIBE THELIST Your Name
To send messages to other subscribers, send an email message to
thelist@uiuc.edu
Where to get THE
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THE is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more details see the file COPYING that should have accompanied this
file.
THE is available from the following sites:
North America: ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/packages/THE/
http://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/
ftp://ftp.xylogics.com/pub/misc/THE/
Germany: ftp://ftp.rzg.mpg.de/pub/software/the/THE/
ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/comp/sysv/THE/
Austria: ftp://ftp.wu-wien.ac.at/pub/src/Editors/THE/
Australia: ftp://ftp.qut.edu.au/pub/markh/THE/
http://www.gu.edu.au/gext/the/markh.html
Files available:
thedos??.zip - version ?.? DOS executable and documentation
thedjg??.zip - version ?.? extended DOS executable and documentation
theos2??.zip - version ?.? OS/2 executable and documentation
thew32??.zip - version ?.? Win95/NT executable and documentation
thesrc??.zip - source code for version ?.?
THE-?.?.tar.gz - source code for version ?.?
thedoc??.zip - HTML documentation for version ?.?
thedit21.zip - version 2.1 MS-Windows 3.1 port (shareware)
Pre-compiled binaries for various Unix systems are also available from
the sites above.
All zip files use Info-Zip's Zip 2.01.
Also note that the source files will be in Unix format (LF only to end line)
so unzipping under OS/2, DOS or Win95/NT use the -a switch.
Notes on Source Distribution:
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THE uses curses as its screen handler. This makes it portable but not the
best for fast screen refreshes.
To compile the DOS, OS/2 and Win32 ports you need PDCurses 2.3 (or later); a
public domain library of curses screen handling routines, of which I am
the current maintainer. PDCurses 2.3 is available from:
North America: ftp://ftp.xylogics.com/pub/misc/PDCurses/
Germany: ftp://ftp.rzg.mpg.de/pub/software/the/THE/
Australia: ftp://ftp.qut.edu.au/pub/markh/PDCurses/
http://www.gu.edu.au/gext/the/markh.html
You also require PDCurses 2.3 (or later) for the X11 port.
To assist with configuring THE to compile under Unix, a "configure" script
is included. This script should be able to set up most, if not all
requirements for compilation. Run configure with the --help switch to
determine what configuration options are available.
If building THE with REXX support using Regina 0.07a, you will need to
apply several patches to the original Regina source distribution. These
patches are in the file; regina.pch. These fixes have been incorporated
into later versions of Regina.
********************* Note to Users of Borland C++ 2.0 *****************
There is a bug in the stat() function that returns an error if you call
stat() with the root directory. This causes any sos_edit of a directory
that will resolve to the root directory to think it is a new file.
The bug in stat() has been fixed in release 3.0.
********************* Note to Users of Borland C++ 2.0 *****************
If you find bugs or major inconsistencies, please let me know. If you
manage to compile and run on a different platform to the above, please
send me any changes to the code and the makefile, so I can include the
patches in the official release.
Enjoy, Mark.
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Mark Hessling Email: M.Hessling@qut.edu.au
PO Box 203 Phone: +617 3802 0800
Bellara http://www.gu.edu.au/gext/the/markh.html
QLD 4507 **** Maintainer PDCurses & REXX/SQL ****
Australia ************* Author of THE ************
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