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Copyright(C) 1996 by Creative Digital Publishing Inc. All rights reserved.
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This Archive contains three files: ReadMe.txt (this file), RagoutD.pkg, a demo
version of Ragout, and Ragout.pdf, an Adobe Acrobat file that contains the
documentation for Ragout, a Newton soup browser. NOTE: RAGOUTD.PKG ONLY WORKS ON
NEWTON 2.0 SYSTEMS. THERE IS NO DEMO VERSION FOR PRE-2.0 NEWTONS.

Ragout is the ultimate soup tool, designed for Newton developers,
consultants, and power users. It includes a comprehensive feature set not
found in any other soup tool. Incorporating an intuitive, easy-to-use
interface that displays all essential soup information, Ragout lets you:

* Create, delete, copy, and move soups;
* Add and remove soup indices;
* Create, delete, copy, move, view, and edit soup entries, and change slot
  data types; 
* Delete all entries in a soup or index;
* Create multiple copies of a soup entry, a feature that is particularly
  useful for sizing potential soup structures. 
* Fax and print soup information and entry contents for documentation
  purposes; and
* Beam soup entries to other Newtons.

Ragout has a variety other features that let you easily navigate within a set
of soup entries. First, you can step into and out of nested frame and array
structures to an arbitrary depth, giving you complete access to all the data
in a soup. You can also move to the first and last entries within a soup,
move forward and backward 1 or N entries, set and go to a specific tagged
entry, or search for a specific entry by index value. These operations are
all done within the context of a specific index or the entire contents of a
soup. 

Ragout is Newton 2.0 OS compatible. It supports soup aliases, but does not
currently support indices on tagged slots. That capability is planned for the
next release.

Created by Ricardo Martinez, Ragout is available exclusively from Creative
Digital Inc., publishers of PDA Developers magazine and several other Newton
developer tools, including the debugger ViewFrame, and MicroWave and GizmoBeam,
libraries for creating desktop applications that can exchange information with
Newton applications via infrared beaming. 

Ragout's retail price is $55, $45 for PDA Developers subscribers. Shipping and
handling is $7.50 within North America, $12.50 elsewhere. Dealer, distributor,
and site license inquiries are welcome.

Creative Digital, Inc.
293 Corbett Ave, San Francisco, CA 94114
415.621.4252
415.621.4922 (fax)
info@cdpubs.com
74774.50@compuserve.com
http://www.cdpubs.com


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