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     Alternate text viewer with mouse control.

     This alternate text viewer is mouse controlled. Pulling mouse
toward the bottom of the screen increases the rate of text speed.
Centering the mouse in screen stops text. Pushing the mouse to top of
screen reverses it. It can be used as a .PRG or .ACC.

     The idea for the program came from the Amiga world and since the
St did not have anything like it. Figured it was time we did
(with a few added options of course).

     The twists or main features of the program are:
     1) To be able to view files without using the keyboard or holding
        down mouse buttons.
     2) Smooth scroll the text so that it is easy to read and be able
        to adjust the speed of the scroll to a comfortable reading
        speed.

     The program has been keep pretty simple, because the routines will
replace the 'viewer mode' in Dterm. It simply means that there are no
dialog boxes, info-lines or on-line help screens. It does not mean the
lack of search routines, block settings, page marks and the ability to
save, print or load. D_Viewer can also be run as an accessary by
replacing the .PRG extender with .ACC and run from the root directory
on the boot drive.

     For those interested, D_Viewer was written in assembler.