cAPSDown v0.93
by Duke Ionescu <duke@mastre.com>
1998 MasTRE Consulting, Inc.  All rights reserved.
document written in PFE v0.07.002


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-What's it?-
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cAPSDown is a utility I actually wrote for a friend and decided to release it
to the Public Domain, the idea being that maybe it'll be useful.  It doesn't do
much really.  Here's what it does:  Have you ever been out on the town with a
bunch of friends livin' it up only to get home and check your email and, among
the countless SPAM messages you receive daily (prolly because of posting to
USENET with your real address), you actually saw a message from someone you gave
a flying flock about and wanted to respond to?  And just as you got ready to send
the message on its merry lil way you noticed that THE CAPS LOCK BUTTON WAS ON AS
YOU TYPED THE WHOLE DAMN THANG?  Well, no sweat, cAPSDown to the rescue.


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-How to Install & Use-
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The recommended way to use cAPSDown is to place a shortcut to it on the Desktop
in any Win32 OS (like Microsnot Windblows 95/98/NT), or even the actual program
file itself (it's only 26k).  Then, when YOU HAPPEN TO TYPE LIKE THIS, simply:

1. Select the TEXT in question
2. Hit Ctrl-C (in other words, copy the damn thing).  Leave it selectd after copy.
3. Double-click (execute) cAPSLock
4. Switch back to the original application and hit Ctrl-V (paste).
5. Pat yourself on the back, you did it! :-)


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-Technical-
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cAPSDown is written in straight Win32 C.  It is, as some would say, 32-bit clean
(gosh, what an old term) and it is intentionally *NOT* MFC.  It is compiled with
MSVC++ 5.0sp3 as non-CPU-specific, so it should run on any platform that runs
x86 Win32.  You do not need any DLLs or anything of the sort to run it, just what
came with your system (like, say, commdlg32.dll).  It does a straight inversion,
so if your input text were "hELLO mR. wILL sMITH, R U GETTIN' JIGGY WID IT?" you
would end up with "Hello Mr. Will Smith, r u gettin' jiggy wid it?"  However, it
checks to see if 50% or more of input characters are lowercase literals and, if
so, it presents you with a message box that begs "Clipboard contains mostly
lowercase text, invert anyway?"  I originally wanted to disable inversion from
'good text,' but then I thought there could be two potential uses for this:
1) You know what you're doing OR 2) You typed properly, but you want to annoy
your friends anyway so you want to simulate that you had CAPS LOCK on :-)  This
utility will work with any program that can copy text to the clipboard (this
means mostly anything you type stuff into).  It will work with ANYTHING that
will copy text to the clipboard, even dialog boxes.

BTW, it does not touch any punctuation or anything of the sort.


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-Registration-
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I call this NoWare, meaning that it doesn't fall under any traditional
classification, like SHARware, Freeware, UNiXware or Internetware :-)  There
is no fee for using this program.  All I ask is that if you find it useful,
drop me a line, comment and/or make suggestions, or whatever.  And if you do like
it, tell a friend about it.  Of course if you would like to make a small donation
so I can buy myself a drink on you in downtown Manhattan, it would be welcomed :)

If you run into any message box, it will say cAPSDown vX.XX UnRegistered - if you
would like to get rid of the UnRegistered part, email me - duke@mastre.com - I'm
sure we can work something out <g>  Of course you could always use a hex editor
to change the string yourself since I didn't bother to protect the EXE in any way,
but that wouldn't be right, would it? :)


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-Version History-
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v0.93   - IPO (Initial Public Offering)

