Aportisdoc Reader for the Portfolio

This is a primitive program to read 
compressed Aportisdoc text files 
(normally intended for the PalmPilot 
handheld) on the portfolio.
As it was made very quickly there is 
next to no documentation and the 
only thing the program can do is 
decompress and try to word-wrap and 
display the text to you. Nothing 
more.
Usage: AREAD 
<filename.with.extension>
If the file can't be found, PATH 
will be searched.
Press any key to display the next 
page. (First page will display the 
file's title) Press ESC to exit to 
DOS.
Very useful feature: After 
displaying a page it will save your 
current file and position within it 
to a file called AREAD.DAT. When run 
next time (without any commandline 
parameters) or after a system crash 
it will bring you to where you left 
last time. (Note about the DAT file: 
If it does not yet exist it will be 
created in the C:\SYSTEM directory. 
If you do not want it to be there 
move it anywhere else but be sure it 
can be found by AREAD in the current 
directory or somewhere in the PATH. 
The program will search these 
places.)
Use only Aportisdoc files (standard 
endings are .prc and .pdb, but most 
.pdb files seem to be something 
else) and be sure to spell the 
filename correctly. If you do 
anything wrong anywhere it might 
well crash. Don't expect too much, 
but it does the job nicely for me.
Due to the portfolio's nearly 
complete death (at least it seems so 
to me) this program may be used and 
copied freely, but it may not be 
reverse-engineered or anything else 
which goes beyond normal usage. If 
you include it with some product 
which is to be sold, be so kind and 
ask me for permission first. If you 
need "customer support", don't 
hesitate to ask me per E-Mail at 
gthoele@gmx.de or by snailmail at
Gunnar Thoele
Poststrasse 1
D-25693 St.Michaelisdonn
Germany
Future: I have plans... I am 
thinking of scroll-back and 
bookmarks. And possibly a file 
browser.
For the far future I am thinking of 
a HTML renderer and display features 
of other file formats, especially 
GIF graphics. (Maybe in another 
program)

Getting books to read:
try following internet links:
http://www.memoware.com/
http://www.macduff.net/library.asp
This file is provided in ADOC
format for you to have something
to test the software with
(use AREAD.PRC)

That's all for now. Bye Gunnar

AREAD has an own homepage including some stuff for reading!
http://www.pingweb.de/gunni/ereader.htm