Contents for WFView Help

Overview

About this program

Installing the program

The Configuration Box

Files

Uninstalling the program


This Program is FREE!

Pay no money at all, just use it and copy it to all your friends. Make sure to include all files listed in the Files section.

The program is written using Borland C++ 3.1 by:

            Sverre H. Huseby
            Bjølsengt. 17
            N-0468 Oslo
            Norway

            Phone: +47 22 23 05 39

            E-mail: sverrehu@ifi.uio.no

If you like this program and intend to use it, please send me an E-mail, a postcard, a letter or anything telling me about it!

If you find any bugs, or if you have any suggestions for improvements, tell me about that too!


I mean please, please, please, pleeeeease!


Files
Files used by WFView

The following files should always be included in the WFView-package:

WFVIEW.EXE      The executable file.
WFVIEW.HLP      This documentation.
WFVIEWFM.DLL    File Manager extension library.
WHATSNEW.TXT    List of version changes.
FILE_ID.DIZ     Used by BBS'es to get file info.

FILE_ID.DIZ and WHATSNEW.TXT are not required to run the program, so they can be deleted. Just make sure you have a copy somewhere, in case somebody wants it. If you don't intend to install WFView on the File Manager menu, WFVIEWFM.DLL can also be removed.

The program also uses a file called WFVIEW.INI, which is created in the Windows-directory. This file is changed according to your personal setup, and should never be distributed.

If you install WFView on the File Manager menu, the file WINFILE.INI in your Windows directory will have a line added in the [AddOns] -section. This line is removed if you choose Remove File Manager Extension from the Options menu.


Overview

WFView is a file reader program. It will help you read the contents of any textfile limited to 16000 lines.

Here's a list of features:

•	Copy text to the clipboard.

•	Text search capabilities.

•	Automatic reloading if the file has changed on disk.

•	User configurable font and colors.

•	Optional conversion from IBM to ANSI character sets.

•	Can be installed on the File Manager menu. Highlight a file in File Manager, and choose FileView! on its menu to activate WFView with that file.

•	And for those Unix-hackers that are forced to use Windows: use space as a `complete filename'-key when entering a filename.


Installing the Program

After copying WFVIEW.EXE, WFVIEW.HLP and WFVIEWFM.DLL to your favourite Windows utility directory, you should add b WFVIEW.EXE to some group in your Program Manager (StartUp, maybe?).

To include WFView on the File Manager menu, start WFView, and choose Install File Manager Extension from the Options menu.


Configuring
The Configuration Box

Choose Configuration from the Options menu to set up the program. A dialog box pops up, giving you the opportunity to change the following:

File Change Checking
Here you specify how often WFView should check the date and time of the file currently displayed. A file is reopened if its date/time has changed. Choose Never to have no checking at all, otherwise specify how often you want it to check. The default is each 10th second.

Conversion
The extended characters (ASCII > 127) differ in DOS and Windows. Choose OEM to ANSI when displaying a file intended for MS-DOS, else the non-English characters will be displayed incorrectly.
Another possiblilty, is to choose the font called "Terminal", that is supposed to behave like the DOS-font.

Font
Press the Choose button to choose one of your fixed pitch fonts. The default is "Courier New", "Normal" and 9 points.
For TrueType fonts it is also possible to adjust the font width relative to the height. The default is to use a width that is 80% of the height, giving a rather readable Courier New.

Colors
Choose Custom to be able to set up the colors as you want them. Text Fg is the color of the text, Text Bg is the background of normal text. Highlight Fg is the color of highlighted text, while Highlight Bg is the background color of highlighted text.

Everything you specify is stored in the file WFVIEW.INI in your Windows directory.


Uninstalling the Program

If you will no longer use WFView, you can do the following things to completely remove it from your system:

1	If WFView is installed in the File Manager menu, start WFView and choose Remove File Manager Extension from the Options menu.

2	Delete WFVIEW.INI from your Windows directory.

3	Delete WFVIEW.EXE, WFVIEW.HLP and possibly WFVIEWFM.DLL and FILE_ID.DIZ from the directory you installed them in.

Thats it. No more WFView. *sigh*