                      Welcome to THE, The Hessling Editor.

INTRODUCTION
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THE is a full-screen character mode text editor based on the VM/CMS editor
XEDIT and many features of KEDIT written by Mansfield Software.

THE has currently been ported to the following platforms:
- most Unix systems; text mode and native X11 application
- OpenEdition on OS/390
- Linux
- 32bit DOS
- OS/2
- Win32
- QNX
- Amiga
- BeOS/Haiku
- macOS

THE OS/2 port is similar to EPM, runs within an OS/2 command window and is
HPFS aware. THE also uses the OS/2 Rexx interpreter to execute macro files.
An extensive interface exists between THE and Rexx giving THE the complete
power of Rexx.

Rexx support in the DOS DPMI and VCPI ports, QNX, Amiga and BeOS ports is
provided by the free Rexx interpreter, Regina, which is available from
https://regina-rexx.sourceforge.net
THE OS/2 version uses the Rexx interpreter that is supplied with OS/2.
The Win7/Win10/Win11 ports can use one of several Rexx interpreters; principally
Regina and ooRexx.

For Unix ports, Rexx support is available with Regina and ooRexx.


THELIST: A Mailing list for announcements and discussion of THE.
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A mailing list has been created for discussion of THE. You can subscribe
to it by sending an email message to listserv@uiuc.edu with the body of
the email message containing:

SUBSCRIBE THELIST Your Name

eg.
SUBSCRIBE THELIST Joe Bloggs

To send messages to other subscribers, send an email message to
thelist@uiuc.edu


Where to get THE
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THE is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more details see the file COPYING that should have accompanied this
file.

THE is available from:

https://hessling-editor.sourceforge.net

Pre-compiled binaries for various platforms are available from the site above.

Notes on Source Distribution:
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THE uses curses as its screen handler. This makes it portable but not
necessarily as fast as native screen handling routines.

The can be built with ncurses or PDCursesMod (https://github.com/rexx-org/PDCursesMod);
the latter source is embedded within the THE source distribution.
This enable THE to be packaged and not rely on a port of PDCursesMod that currently
does not have the ability to be packaged.

To assist with configuring THE to compile under Unix, a "configure" script
is included. This script should be able to set up most, if not all
requirements for compilation. Run configure with the --help switch to
determine what configuration options are available.

If you find bugs or major inconsistencies, please let me know. If you
manage to compile and run on a different platform to the above, please
send me any changes to the code and the makefile, so I can include the
patches in the official release.

Enjoy, Mark.

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 Mark Hessling,  mark@rexx.org  https://www.rexx.org/
 Author of THE, a Free XEDIT/KEDIT editor, Rexx/SQL, Rexx/DW, Rexx/cURL...
 Maintainer of Regina Rexx interpreter and Rexx/tk
 Use Rexx ? join the Rexx Language Association: https://www.rexxla.org
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