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PrEditor 1.2 - 26 March 2001

Programmer's Editor
Copyright (c) 2001 Young Associates
All rights reserved

WHAT IS PREDITOR?
   A syntax colouring programmer's editor for program languages,
   scripts, HTML, configuration files, and documentation. With an FTP
   client and transparent support for DOS, UNIX, and Mac files,
   PrEditor allows you edit any file, anywhere. It has pre-defined
   syntax colouring for most languages including C/C++, C#, perl, Java,
   Basic, HTML, SQL and pascal, and can be easily configured for other
   languages and file formats. Built-in project support allows you to
   organise your files the way you want, and provides for tools
   integration (such as compilers, HTML validators, etc.) to build your
   projects. It has extensive menu, keyboard, toolbar customisation
   together with a flexible tabbed user interface, and a comprehensive
   help.
   
   For more informtion - http://www2.gol.com/users/jyoung/PrEditor.html

SHAREWARE STATEMENT
   This software is shareware which means that you are free to install
   and use the product for a period of 30 days for the purposes of
   evaluation. Thereafter you must either register the product or
   remove the product from your computer.

   You are free to distribute the product as long as it is the entire
   product (you must not change the product in any way when
   distributing it).

REQUIREMENTS
    OS: Windows 95/98/NT 4.0 or better
   CPU: 486 or better
   RAM: 16Mb or more
   VDU: 640 x 400 or better
	
HOW TO REGISTER?

   Online registration is done by connecting to
   
     http://www2.gol.com/users/jyoung/PrEditor.html

   and following the links to register.

PRICE
	Single user licence      $35 US
	Site licence             $700 US
	World-wide licence       $2500 US
	
DISTRIBUTION PACKAGE
   The distribution package is either a predxx.exe or a predxx.zip
   file. predxx.exe is a self-extracting archive which contains the
   predxx.zip file. The "xx" refers to the version number, so
   pred12.exe would be PrEditor version 1.2.

   pred12.zip contains the following files...
   
     setup.exe           The installer program.
     ReadMe.txt          This file
     file_id.diz         File information 'Description In Zip' file.
     vendinfo.diz        VendInfo 'Description In Zip' file.
     pad_file.htm        PAD format description file (user readable)
     pad_file.xml        PAD format XML file (used by dealers)
     
   The installer will deliver the following files...

     PrEditor.exe         The editor
     syntax\*.syntax      Syntax colour configuration files
     ReadMe.txt          This file (again)
     BCGCCB510.dll        Stas Leven's excelent Control Bar library DLL
     UserImages.bmp       File for user images
     NSViews.dll          NanoSoft's free stretchy dialog DLL
     PrEditor.chm         PrEditor help file
     ConSpawn.exe         Tool helper program
     MFC42.dll            MFC DLL used by PrEditor (system directory)
     MSVCRT.dll           C runtime DLL used by PrEditor (system 
                          directory) 

            
HOW TO INSTALL?
   1/ Run predxx.exe (xx is the version number).  It will extract the 
      file predxx.zip to a temporary location.  If you already have the 
      zip file, then skip this step :-)
      
   2/ Unzip predxx.zip to a temporary location (can be the same as 
      above).
   
   3/ Run setup.exe then follow the instructions.  After installation 
      you can delete the files in the temporary location folder created 
      by predxx.exe.
   
HOW TO UNINSTALL?
   Simple, though why would you? ;-) Use the Control Panel's Add/Remove
   Software applet.
   
   To manually uninstall PrEditor (do at your own risk!)
   
     . delete the installation folder (usually "c:\Program Files\PrEditor")
     . remove the registry keys using REGEDIT.EXE

       //HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Young Associates/PrEditor
       //HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Young Associates/PrEditor

   It is recommended that you leave the two system files (mfc40.dll and
   msvcrt.dll) in the system folder because you may have other
   applications that use them.

Thank you for trying and using PrEditor. If you find it useful, have
any suggestions, or (heaven forbid) you find any bugs, then I would
like to hear from you - whether you register the product or not.

John Young,
Young Associates
jyoung@gol.com
http://www2.gol.com/users/jyoung/YoungAssociates.html
