Y.I.K.E.S. Readme V2.22 Introduction ------------ YIKES stands for "Yes, I Kan Edit Stuff." It was designed and built by Alden Bates. The original YIKES was written to emulate the Editor which came with DOS and was expanded and added to as I felt necessary, and was also inflicted on an unsuspecting net population. As it continued to grow, I felt that the design was being stretched too far, so I decided to develop YIKES 2, with the purpose of including all the additions in the original design, and making the interface a little closer to Windows standard. YIKES can edit text files and (to some degree) raw binary files, though it's primarily for text files. I have tried to keep it as close functionally to the DOS editor as possible, although in some cases this wasn't easy. Loading Files into YIKES ------------------------ There are several ways of doing this: 1. Using the File|Open menu item This is standard as in most Windows applications 2. Drag and Drop This is best for Text Files. You can also hold down Alt while you drag/drop, and it will give you a popup menu to choose whether to open the file as text or binary. 3. Command line From the DOS command line, you can invoke the editor using: yikes Optional command line parameters: /R - open following files as read only /B - open following files as binary /N - open following files as non-read-only text /P - open first files from "Reopen" dialog /R and /B will override the saved modes. Note, these next two only apply to the next file or file mask. / - open next file(s) at line /E - open next file(s) at with the cursors initially at the end E.G. yikes /10 "c:\program files\*.txt" test.txt will open all txt files in the program files directory and place the cursor at line 10 in each one. test.txt will be opened at line 1 Associating File Types ---------------------- The best way to associate file types with Yikes is to shift-right click on a file of that type, select open with, select Yikes from the list (or press the other button and browse to Yikes on your Hard drive), make sure 'Always use this program to open this type of file' is checked, and then press OK. In Windows XP: Right-click on a file of that type, select the "Open With:" menu, then pick "Choose Program", select Yikes from the list (or press the other button and browse to Yikes on your Hard drive), make sure 'Always use this program to open this type of file' is checked, and then press OK. Installation ------------ If not using the automatic installation program, simply unzip the files into a new directory and create a shortcut to yikes.exe. If installing over an older version, you should find and delete yikes.gid. This file is generated by the Windows help system and will now be out of date. Unfortunately, due to the changes in Yikes, settings from Yikes version 1.33 and older will not be carried over to the new version. Credits ------- Main Program by Alden Bates. Alden's Home Page is Tetrapyriarbus: http://www.tetrap.com/ The Yikes Home Page: http://www.tetrap.com/software/yikes/ Orpheus controls by TurboPower: http://www.turbopower.com/ YIKES was built in Borland C++ Builder 3: http://www.borland.com/ YIKES was compressed with UPX: http://upx.sourceforge.net/ (UPX is Copyright (c) 1996-2001 Markus Oberhumer & Laszlo Molnar) Feature suggestions: Stuart Denyer, Jack Bevan The author should not be held responsible for loss of data resulting from use of this program. When using some versions of WindowBlinds, the window position may not be restored correctly when restarting YIKES. Distribution ------------ YIKES may be distributed free of charge only. It may only be distributed in the original zip file complete with all files. If you find this program on a shareware disk, feel free to email me on my site so I can severely pummel the people who did it.