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                      | | THE WORD PROGRAM MODULES | |
                      |\|  DEVELOPER INFORMATION   |/|
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                      |/   | V0.01, 25/06/1998 |    \|
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  Due  to  major  time constraints, the developer section is far away from
  being  complete.   For the latest version, contact me, BootBlock/Carnage
  at the email address below.


 1. WHAT'S THIS?

  This  is  the developer information for creating Program Modules for The
  Word  TNG.  Program Modules are seperate program The Word (TW) calls for
  the  handling  of  specific tasks.  Such as printing, Workbench articles
  viewers, etc.

  In  it's  current  form, the main The Word executable (which is the main
  disk magazine engine that calls external program modules) gives no other
  information to program modules except for the actual article data itself
  which is in plain ASCII format with the article codes still imbedded.


 2. HOW DOES IT WORK?

  It's  very  very simple at the moment.  Say for example the user selects
  PRINT  from  the menu in the magazine, TW save the current article (with
  article codes still imbedded in the article) to "RAM:TheWordTNG.tmp" and
  will   launch  "TWxx:ProgramModules/Print.exe"  (xx  denotes  the  issue
  number, ie.  "TW19:...") to takeover the task of printing.

  It's  totally  upto  the print module to how printing will work, how the
  final print-out will look, basically everything print related.

  The  print  module  can do anything it wants to the article file because
  when the print module quits, it will be deleted.


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  As  the  note at the top of this file says, this is not finished yet, so
  if  you  want  the  latest  version,  please  email  me,  BootBlock, at:
  BootBlock@GeoCities.com.                    
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