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Dave Pearson<p>I've released v0.3.0 of AgiNG, my <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/NortonGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NortonGuide</span></a> reader for the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/terminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>terminal</span></a>. The main addition in this release is searching.</p><p>See <a href="https://blog.davep.org/2025/03/22/aging-0-3-0.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.davep.org/2025/03/22/agin</span><span class="invisible">g-0-3-0.html</span></a> for more details.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MSDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSDOS</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Clipper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Clipper</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Textual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Textual</span></a></p>
Dave Pearson<p>Looking through some of the new <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/NortonGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NortonGuide</span></a> files I found, this might be my new favourite entry in any guide ever.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MSDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSDOS</span></a></p>
Dave Pearson<p>In an effort to really shake down my <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/NortonGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NortonGuide</span></a> reader project, I've been looking around the net for any Norton Guide files I don't have in my collection. </p><p>Found another 11, including a rather nice <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MSDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSDOS</span></a> programmers guide I'd long forgotten about.</p>
Dave Pearson<p>The global search facility in my new <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/NortonGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NortonGuide</span></a> reader is coming along nicely. The main workings of it are done. Now the tinkering and tweaking of the look/feel begins...</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Terminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Terminal</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Textual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Textual</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MSDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSDOS</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Clipper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Clipper</span></a></p>
Dave Pearson<p>I'm at the "add global search" stage of working on my new <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/NortonGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NortonGuide</span></a> reader; and it's thrown up some issues with corrupted or badly-written guides. So NGDB v0.10.0 is out and it's much more defensive. <a href="https://github.com/davep/ngdb.py/releases/tag/v0.10.0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/davep/ngdb.py/relea</span><span class="invisible">ses/tag/v0.10.0</span></a></p><p>I also wrote a tool to scan every guide I have to hand to look for any issues: <a href="https://github.com/davep/ngdb.py/blob/main/.comprehensive_test/read_all_known_guides" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/davep/ngdb.py/blob/</span><span class="invisible">main/.comprehensive_test/read_all_known_guides</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Clipper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Clipper</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MSDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSDOS</span></a></p>
Dave Pearson<p>Just released v0.2.0 of AgiNG, my <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/NortonGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NortonGuide</span></a> reader for the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/terminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>terminal</span></a>. This adds a wee bug fix and adds more guide directory management support. <a href="https://github.com/davep/aging" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/davep/aging</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Also, fun fact: if you set up textual-serve you can use this as a browser-based Norton Guide viewer.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Textual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Textual</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MSDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSDOS</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Clipper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Clipper</span></a></p>
Dave Pearson<p>I've released v0.1.0 of AgiNG; my new <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/NortonGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NortonGuide</span></a> reader for the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Terminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Terminal</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MSDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSDOS</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Textual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Textual</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Clipper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Clipper</span></a></p><p><a href="https://blog.davep.org/2025/03/12/aging.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.davep.org/2025/03/12/agin</span><span class="invisible">g.html</span></a></p>
Dave Pearson<p>An issue with some <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/NortonGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NortonGuide</span></a> files is they use colour attributes that assume the original Norton Guide application colour scheme. Won't play well with my app's themes.</p><p>So I added a "classic view" mode...</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MSDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSDOS</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Clipper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Clipper</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Terminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Terminal</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Textual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Textual</span></a></p>
Dave Pearson<p>Next up for the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/NortonGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NortonGuide</span></a> reader project is sorting out colour mapping. <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Textual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Textual</span></a> (well the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/terminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>terminal</span></a> I guess) has a very idea of what colour codes are vs good old <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MSDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSDOS</span></a>. </p><p>Will need to create a mapping.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a></p>
Dave Pearson<p>While my knowledge of the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/NortonGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NortonGuide</span></a> file format is enough to make a working reader, to this day there's a few bits in the format that are unknowns to me. So I decided to ask ChatGPT about it to see if it had indexed anything I didn't know about.</p><p>Asked it to cite its sources...</p>
Dave Pearson<p>Woke up this morning thinking I didn't like how I'd done the see-also handling in the new <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/NortonGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NortonGuide</span></a> viewer. Dropped the pop-up menu and went with a more classic approach...</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Terminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Terminal</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Clipper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Clipper</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MSDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSDOS</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Textual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Textual</span></a></p>
Dave Pearson<p>The <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/NortonGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NortonGuide</span></a> reader for the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/terminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>terminal</span></a> project now has a bunch more navigation, and see-also support too. It's almost done with basic functionality!</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Textual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Textual</span></a></p>
Dave Pearson<p>The basics of guide navigation are now in place; and most of the rendering is working fine too (one possible <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Textual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Textual</span></a> bug aside). Next up is see-also support.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/NortonGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NortonGuide</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Clipper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Clipper</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Terminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Terminal</span></a></p>
Dave Pearson<p>The new <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/NortonGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NortonGuide</span></a> tinker project has got to the point where it's loading and displaying entries, with colour and everything.</p><p>Bonus points if you can identify the guide...</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Clipper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Clipper</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MSDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSDOS</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Textual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Textual</span></a></p>
Dave Pearson<p>Okay, let's do it, at least one last time...</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/terminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>terminal</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/nortonguide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nortonguide</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/clipper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>clipper</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/msdos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>msdos</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/textual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>textual</span></a></p>
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