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(Compare text in files) (Convert - eMail Tool) (Convert - OCR) (Convert HTML) (Convert PDF) (Convert Text-To-Speech) (Convert to PDF) (Editor - Hex) (Editor - Notepad) (Editor - Programmer) (Editor - Word Processor) (Font Tool - 3D Text) (Font Tool - Manager-Viewer) (Search and Replace Tool) (Search Tool)


Compare text in files

ExamDiff
(Liteware)
OS: Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: ExamDiff is a tool for visual file comparison of two text or html files. After selecting the two files to compare, ExamDiff will display them in a split screen and highlight all the differences The program offers a variety of handy features, like copying of text from the comparison panes via drag and drop and one push re-compare function which attempts to leave the viewer's focus in the same place as before the re-compare. ExamDiff can also remember a user specified number of last compared first and second files and saves the file differences in a standard UNIX DIFF file. The interface is clean,compact and there are several options to customize the comparison process, for example by ignoring white spaces and more.
Author: -- Company: PrestoSoft
Home Page:
http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp
Program description:
http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff
Download v 1.6i (2002-12-23) (ed16i.zip) (204 KB)
http://www.prestosoft.com/download/ed16i.zip
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)


Convert - eMail Tool

eCleaner
(Freeware) (discontinued)
OS:
Languages: English
Description: Cleaner is a simple text editor which allows you to make your e-mail messages more readable by removing the symbols that accumulate when an e-mail is forwarded several times. eCleaner lets you remove any HTML code and obscure headers, removing the > > symbols, and fix fragmented sentences that are caused by word wrapping. In addition, you can open and edit RTF files, customize fonts and colors, and print your files.
Author: Steve Chin Company: --
Home Page:
http://ecleaner.tripod.com/
download v 2.02 (446 KB)
http://ecleaner.tripod.com/clean202.zip
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)


Convert - OCR

SimpleOCR
(Freeware) (free for non-commercial use)
OS: Windows 9x/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English (English and French language recognition)
Description: Do you dread having to retype that document you are holding in your hand? If only you had the electronic file, your life would be so much easier. With SimpleOCR, you could easily and accurately convert that paper document into editable electronic text for use in any application including Word and WordPerfect. With optical character recognition up to 99% accurate, there is no better OCR application for the price. This increased accuracy greatly reduces the need for post-recognition proof reading and correction. SimpleOCR works with all versions of Windows. Your scanner need only a TWAIN driver, the driver that comes with a majority of all scanners sold. In short, SimpleOCR will most likely work with the PC and scanner you already have. NOTES: Based on WOCAR by Cyril Cambien
Author: -- Company: SimpleOCR
Home Page:
http://www.simpleocr.com/
Download v 3.1 (7.5 MB)
http://www.simpleocr.com/Download/SimpleOCR.exe
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)


Convert HTML

Web2Text
(Freeware)
OS: Windows 3.1, Windows 95/98/NT
Languages: English (Instructions in Swedish are available)
Description: Web2Text is a HTML to ASCII text converter. The layout of the original HTML page is kept (as much as is possible) and URLs are kept visible in the text files that are output. Can convert single files or batches. A minimum of post-conversion editing required.
Author: -- Company: Stupendous Software
Home Page:
http://www.jetman.dircon.co.uk/software/web2text.html
Download (Win 95/98/NT) v 1.6 (web2text.zip) (190,802 bytes)
http://www.jetman.dircon.co.uk/software/web2text.zip
Download (Win 3.1) v 1.2 (132,917 bytes):
http://www.jetman.dircon.co.uk/software/w2t16v12.zip
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)

HTMLDOC
(Liteware) (unsupported)
OS: Windows 9x/Me/NT4/2000/XP (versions also available for many other OS)
Languages: English
Description: HTMLDOC is a program that converts HTML files to PDF or Postscript, and additionally generates indexed HTML files. Program supports most HTML 3.2 elements, some HTML 4.0 elements, and can generate title and table of contents pages. It currently does not support stylesheets. NOTES: the command-line (batch) program that is required to use HTMLDOC with a web server under Microsoft Windows is not included in the Liteware version.
Author: -- Company: Easy Software Products
Home Page:
http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/
Download page:
http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/software.php
Download v 1.8.23 (htmldoc-1.8.23-winfree.exe) (2.5 MB)
ftp://ftp2.easysw.com/pub/htmldoc/1.8.23/htmldoc-1.8.23-winfree.exe
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-04)


Convert PDF

PDF2TXT
(Freeware) (Orphanware)
OS: DOS 6.X (runs in a DOS box)
Languages: English
Description: PDF-TXT is a simple command line utility to convert Adobe Acrobat PDF files to plain text files.
Author: Dirk Schouten Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/51612.html
Download v 0.91(2000-12-13) (pdftxt1.zip) (402 KB)
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/txtutl/pdftxt1.zip
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)


Convert Text-To-Speech

ReadPlease
(Liteware)
OS: Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English (American), English (British), Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Description: ReadPlease 2003 is a text-to-speech application designed to give your computer a human-sounding voice so that it can read text to you. It reads aloud any text you type into the text area or text files (up to 16 kb in length). As it speaks, the current word is highlighted, making it easy to follow along. Colors and fonts are fully customizable. ReadPlease does not automatically read text copied onto the clipboard. NOTES: American English is included, downloads available for additional languages.
Author: -- Company: ReadPlease Corporation
Home Page:
http://readplease.com/
Download page v 1.10 (setupreadplease2003.exe) (11 MB)
http://readplease.com/rpdownload.php
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)

Speakonia
(Freeware) (Registerware: name, email)
OS: Windows 9x/ME/2000/XP plus Microsoft language file
Languages: English (American), English (British), French, German, Italian, Portuguese Brazilian, Russian
Description: CFS-Technologies Speakonia is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) GUI (graphical User-Interface) Program which uses the Microsoft ® Speech Technology. The easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) is similar to Notepad. Speakonia reads aloud any given text with just one mouse click! The reading can be paused, resumed and can be exported to a wave file. In addition Speakonia is able to fetch webpages through an internal http interface and read them aloud for you. You can even have your mails read to you using the "Clipboard Reading" feaure. To enable Support for a particular language in Speakonia, download the appropiate language module from the Microsoft ® Page to your harddisk and double click it. NOTES: Links to Microsoft downloads are shown on the Speakonia web page.
Author: -- Company: CFS-Technologies
Home Page:
http://www.cfs-technologies.com/home/?id=1.4
Download v 1.0.3.5 (speakoniasetup-1.0.exe) (2.54 MB)
http://files.cfs-technologies.com/speakonia/speakoniasetup-1.0.exe
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)


Convert to PDF

GhostScript and GSView (GhostView)
(Freeware) (open source, GNU GPL) (unsupported) (GSView is Nagware)
OS: Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP, Macintosh, Unix
Languages: English
Description: AFPL Ghostscript is a PostScript/PDF interpreter that can be used to convert various types of documents to PDF. Using Ghostscript, you can produce a PDF document as follows: Create a document using any favorite application program (Word, Excel, etc.). Use printing software to create a Postscript version. Then use Ghostscript to create a PDF file from the Postscript one. To avoid the command line interface of Ghostscript, Windows users should also install GSView, the graphical interface. GSView can be downloaded from the same site and should be installed after Ghostscript is installed. NOTES: Requires having a Postscript printer driver installed
Author: Russell Lang at Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd http://www.ghostgum.com.au/ (GSView) Company: artofcode LLC and Artifex Software (originally written by Aladdin Enterprises) (Ghostscript)
Home Page: maintained by Russell Lang
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL
Download Windows v 8.13 (2004-01-02) (8080 KB)
ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/gs813/gs813w32.exe
Download GSView v 4.5 (2003-10-18) (gsv45w32.exe) (1554 KB)
ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/ghostgum/gsv45w32.exe
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-04)

MakePDF
(Freeware)
OS: Windows
Languages: English
Description: Portable Document Files (PDF) can be read on any platform with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. The only problem is that Adobe want big bucks for the tools to create the files. Fortunately there is a free alternative - if you configure a Windows Postscript printer driver to create a Postscript file, you can print anything to the file and then use APL Ghostscript to convert the Postscript file to PDF. The only problem with this is that is Ghostscript uses a command line interface which can be difficult to use. Hence this simple but powerful Front End was born. NOTES: Requires Ghostcript and a Postscript printer driver installed
Author: -- Company: Lexacorp
Home Page:
http://www.lexacorp.com.pg/
Download v 2.5 (Dec. 2002) (makepdf25.zip) (29 KB)
http://www.lexacorp.com.pg/soft/makepdf25.zip
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)


Editor - Hex

Frhed
(Freeware) (open source, GNU GPL)
OS: Windows 9x/NT
Languages: English
Description: Frhed (free hex editor) is a small, fast and powerful binary file editor. Features include search and replace for any combination of binary and text data, file comparison, bit manipulation, customizable display colors and font size, ANSI or OEM character set, cut and paste, bookmarking and more. With Frhed you can also apply binary templates for structured information, load files partially (for working on huge programs), and export as hexdump to file or clipboard. Frhed currently does not support Undo.
Author: Raihan Kibria Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.kibria.de/frhed.html
Download v 1.0.156 (frhed156.zip) (307 KB)
http://www.kibria.de/frhed156.zip
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)


Editor - Notepad

MetaPad
(Donationware)
OS: Windows 9x/NT/XP
Languages: English, plugins available for many other languages
Description: Metapad is a small, fast, 32-bit Notepad replacement. It includes all of Notepad's features and much, much more - without sacrificing any of Notepad's speed! Plenty of features for casual use and simple programming tasks alike. These include unlimited file size, drag and drop editing, auto-indent, support for Mac/Unix text files, enhanced find and replace, external viewers and more than 50 keyboard shortcuts. Metapad also features hyperlink support, favorites menu, stay on top window mode, custom font and background colors, a rich set of formatting commands and more. Additionally, you can set 10 quick buffers to paste frequently-used snippets of text. Recent additions include transparent mode and native Windows XP theme support. For spellchecking, one of Metapad's viewers can be configured for use with the freeware Aspell (http:/aspell.sourceforge.net/).
Author: Alexander Davidson Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/
Download v 3.5 (2002-05-17) (mpad35.zip) (46 KB)
http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/mpad35.zip
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)

NoteTab Light
(Liteware)
OS: Windows 9x/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: The ultimate free Notepad replacement and a handy HTML editor. Handle a heap of files with a simple tabbed interface. Search files, strip HTML tags and format text quickly. Build libraries of text macros to speed up your work
Author: -- Company: Fookes Software
Home Page:
http://www.notetab.com/
Download page v 4.95 (NoteTab_Setup.exe) (1795 KB), (ntfree.zip) (1796 KB)
http://www.notetab.com/download.php
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)

EditPad Lite
(Liteware) (free for non-commercial use)
OS: Windows 9x/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: EditPad Lite is a light text editor and Notepad replacement. It has all the features a solid text editor needs without any bloat. You can open as many files at a time as you want, with no arbitrary file size limit. Each file will have its own tab. You can convert between ANSI, ASCII, and Unicode, and work with Unix and Mac files. You can search and replace across all open files. It has unlimited undo and redo and powerful print preview. Additional features include hyperlink support, auto-indent, line numbering, word wrap, column block selection (supported by ALT key), external browser support, customizable font and color, ROT- 13 encoding and more. You can have EditPad store its settings in an .ini file instead of the registry. This allows portability (you can carry around EditPad on a disk) and it keeps the registry clean. EditPad fully supports double byte character systems (DBCS) so you can edit texts written in Far East languages, such as Chinese, Japanese or Korean, as easily as those written in European languages.
Author: Jan Goyvaerts Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.editpadlite.com/editpadlite.html
Download v 5.2.0 (2003-11-25) (SetupEditPadLite.exe) (973 KB)
http://download.jgsoft.com/editpad/SetupEditPadLite.exe
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-04)


Editor - Programmer

Crimson Editor
(Freeware)
OS: Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English (multi-byte support with integrated IME for eastern languages)
Description: Crimson Editor is a professional source editor for Windows. It offers syntax highlighting for more than 50 languages including HTML, C/C++, Perl, Java, Matlab and LaTeX, and can be extended for other programming languages based on custom syntax files. It features a tabbed interface, multi-level undo/redo, find-replace with regular expression support, support for DOS/UNIX/Mac formats, and a rich set of formatting and conversion commands. Crimson also includes user tools, macros, spell checker, natural word wrap, external browser support, bookmarks, built-in calculator (evaluate line), powerful print support, FTP support, fully customizable font, color and line spacing and more.
Author: Ingyu Kang Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
Download v V3.51(2003-06-11) (cedt351r.exe) (980 KB)
http://www.crimsoneditor.com/download/cedt351r.exe
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)

ConText
(Donationware)
OS: Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English, translation files available for many other languages
Description: ConTEXT is small, fast and powerful text editor for software developers. It offers syntax highlighting support for the most popular scripting languages, inclding HTML, PHP, Java, VB, SQL, Python, Perl and many others - and of course plain .txt files. It features unlimited open files without any limits on file sizes. It includes a macro recorder, project support, bookmarks and much more. ConTEXT is highly customizable and allows you to change syntax highlighting colors, cursor shapes, right margin, gutter, line spacing as well as user definable execution keys and other things. Additional features include search and replace across all open files, compiler support, code templates, file explorer, text sort, column block selection (supported by ALT key), and others. ConTEXT currently does not support natural word-wrap.
Author: Eden Kirin Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.fixedsys.com/context/
Download v 0.97.3 (2003-12-30) (ConTEXTsetup.exe) (1.07 MB)
http://www.fixedsys.com/context/download.html
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)

Jedit
(Donationware) (open source GNU GPL)
OS: Windows, MacOS X, Linux, Unix, OS/2 or any other OS, requires Java 2 version 1.3 or 1.4
Languages: English
Description: jEdit is a full-featured programmer's text editor written in Java. It offers syntax highlighting for more than 80 languages. It also includes a rich set of keyboard commands for manipulating entire words, lines and paragraphs at a time. Notable features include savable bookmarks, column block and discontinuous selection, and "folding" display to hide levels of indented text specified by the user. Additional features include auto-indent, macros, word wrap, multiple splittable windows, unlimited undo/redo, search and replace with regular expression support, unlimited number of clipboards, UTF8/Unicode and other character coding support. jEdit is highly configurable with customizable toolbar, context menu and keyboard shortcuts. With it's extensible plugin architecture (more than 80 plugins are available), jEdit can be turned into a full-fledged IDE, with compiler, code completion, context-sensitive help, debugging visual diff, and much more.
Author: Slava Pestov Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.jedit.org/
Download (for any OS) v 4.1 (2003-02-27) (jedit41install.jar) (1.4 MB)
http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=download
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)

vim
(Requestware) (open source, custom, GPL-compatible license)
OS: Windows 3x/9x/ME/NT/2000/XP, MS-DOS, Unix, Amiga, OS/2, Macintosh
Languages: English
Description: Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems.
Author: -- Company: Vim
Home Page:
http://www.vim.org/
Download page (Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP) v 6.2 (2003-06-01) (gvim62.exe) (4144 KB)
http://www.vim.org/download.php
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)


Editor - Word Processor

Crypt Edit
(Freeware) (discontinued) (unsupported)
OS: Windows 9x/2000/NT
Languages: English, with interfaces for Chinese Simplified and Traditional, Russian, and Spanish; dictionaries for German, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish
Description: Crypt Edit is a very powerful multidocument word processor with enhanced cryptography features. It can easily save texts as HTML, DOC, RTF, ASCII (DOS, WIN, UNIX, MAC), WRI, UNICODE and PRT (Protected Text Format with 3 security levels), encrypt/decrypt binary files with compression, create desktop shortcuts for your documents, insert OLE-objects and pictures (gif, jpeg, bmp, emf, wmf). The program includes an advanced e-mail client with an address book, a spelling checker, a built-in clipboard viewer, various converters (Lowercase, Uppercase, ROT-13, OEM etc.), a character map, an autoformat tool and much more. Microsoft IntelliMouse is also supported. Other notable features are several numbering and underline styles, minimization to the system tray, a drag-and-drop interface, lines sorting operations and html-highlighting.
Author: -- Company: PolySoft Solutions
Home Page:
http://polyedit.com/downloads.shtml
Download v 4.1 (2001-04-14) (cedit.zip) (1.1 MB), 4.1 Update (2001-06-23) (update41.zip) (535 Kb)
http://polyedit.com/downloads.shtml
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)

AbiWord
(Donationware) (open source: GPL license)
OS: Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP, Linux, MacOS X, and QNX
Languages: English, many other languages
Description: AbiWord is a lean yet full-featured word processor. It features a familiar-looking interface, basic character formatting, paragraph alignment, a spell checker, interactive rulers and tabs, styles, unlimited undo/redo, find and replace, and image support. It can also import Microsoft Word 97 and RTF (Rich Text Format) documents, as well as support headers/footers, superscript/subscript, widow/orphan control and newspaper-style columns. Many plug-ins are available. Support for tables is currently limited.
Author: -- Company: SourceGear Corporation.
Home Page:
http://www.abisource.com/
Download page (Windows) v 2.0.2 (2003-12-10) (setup_abiword.2-0-2.exe) (5878 KB)
http://www.abisource.com/download/
Alternate download page (Windows) v 2.0.2 (2003-12-10) (setup_abiword.2-0-2.exe) (5878 KB)
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=15518
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)

Atlantis Nova
(Liteware)
OS: Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English, French
Description: Atlantis Nova is a small, fast word processor. With it's WYSIWYG format, documents are displayed on the screen the way they will appear when printed. Atlantis lets you work with up to 50 documents simultaneously. It also supports many document formats (RTF, MS Word 6.0/95/97/2000, MS Write etc) as well as many graphics formats. With it's advanced toolbars, you are only one-mouse-click-away from most operations. More than 200 hotkeys are supported. Different zooming factors and Easy Hand mode make viewing documents extremely convenient. Other features include column support (including sum a column of numbers), drag and drop editing, clippy bank, unlimited document size, unlimited undo/redo, multiple ways to select text using keyboard and mouse, find and replace, advanced wheel mouse support, support for paragraph styles, a calculator integrated into the document window and much more.
Author: -- Company: Rising Sun Solutions
Home Page:
http://www.rssol.com/en/html/download/first.htm
Download (English) v 1.0.0.66 (released 2001) (atlant10n_en.exe) (760 KB)
http://www.rssol.com/en/html/download/nova.htm
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)


Font Tool - 3D Text

Font Magic
(Freeware)
OS: Windows 9x/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Use any TrueType font on your system and instantly create a three-dimensional image, with a variety of effects. The wealth of options and direct manipulation interface allow you to create attractive logos quickly and easily. You can: Create logos for web pages. Save static images and animations. Use any TrueType font installed on your system. Apply material characteristics to text, using the predefined materials provided, or by creating your own. Change the size and orientation of the text. Apply a wide range of textures to your text - you can also add your own textures. Copy images direct to the clipboard. Work with wireframe or fully textured images. Use plain or shaded backgrounds. Specify the exact size of the image you want to create. NOTES: although the help file mentions registration, this is not required. Requires OpenGL for Windows. If needed download from ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/softlib/mslfiles/opengl95.exe
Author: Matt Cawley Company: Font Magic
Home Page:
http://www.mattcawley.com/fontmagic/
Download v 1.0c (FontMagic.zip) (1.8 MB)
http://www.mattcawley.com/fontmagic/downloads/FontMagic.zip
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)


Font Tool - Manager-Viewer

The Font Thing
(Freeware) (Betaware)
OS: Windows 9x/NT
Languages: English
Description: With The Font Thing you can: Browse installed and uninstalled fonts; Browse fonts in subfolders as a single combined list; View sample text and individual characters in your choice of colours; Change sample text "on the fly" or easily switch between your own standard text samples; View detailed font information; Print font samples; Associate notes with fonts; Install or uninstall any number of fonts at once; Load (and unload) any number of fonts for temporary use; Copy or delete any number of font files at once; Rename font files to avoid file name conflicts; Filter fonts according to their type; Group fonts into collections for easier management; Use multiple font windows simultaneously for easy font comparison and management.
Author: Sue Fisher Company: --
Home Page:
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~scef/tft.html
Download v 0.80 (beta 2) (1999-12-22) (483 KB) (tft.zip). with installer(1126 KB) ( tfti.zip)
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~scef/tft/tftdownloadmain.html
(desc. rev.: 2003-11-23)

X-Fonter
(Freeware)
OS: Windows
Languages: English
Description: X-Fonter is a user friendly Font Manager and Font viewer. It also allows you to make nice 3D Graphics that you can use for your webpages, emails and much more. Features: Supports TrueType, OpenType, Postscript Type 1, Raster and Vector Fonts; Preview Fonts without installation; Install or uninstall any TrueType Fonts; Search for fonts on any drive/directory; Network support included; Font Filtering by Font Family, Codepages and Font Style; Adjustable Colors, Styles and Sizes; View Fonts in 3D mode; Character map (ASCII and Unicode); Basic Image editor built in (with cropping); JPG output supported for 3D graphics; Most settings are saved and reused in next session; Very simple and intuitive interface; No extra DLL's required; Uninstall option; Compare fonts in Dual pane; Print font overview. NOTES: no GIF support.
Author: -- Company: BlackSun Software
Home Page:
http://users.pandora.be/eclypse/
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/xfonter.html
Description and download page v 4.1 (2003-12-21) (X-Fonter-setup.exe) (886 KB)
http://users.pandora.be/eclypse/xfonter.html
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)


Search and Replace Tool

Info-Rapid Search & Replace
(Freeware) (free for non-commercial use)
OS: Windows 9x/NT/2000
Languages: English
Description: InfoRapid Search & Replace is one of the most powerful text retrieval programs currently available for Microsoft Windows. With its built-in converters, it's excellently suitable for searching and previewing HTML and RTF documents. In pure text files, the found text passages can be replaced after the search is over. The search and replace process can be automated with the help of batch files to replace several phrases in one step. The found documents can be opened in a preview window, in which the matches are highlighted. A special feature is that InfoRapid can use Microsoft Office converters to search WinWord, Excel, Lotus and other documents and preview them in their original layout. The advantages of InfoRapid Search & Replace lie in the diverse search options and in the simple operation and handiness. A click on a hypertext link in the search result list opens the corresponding file in the text viewer and jumps directly to the marked passage. Another click, this time with the right mouse button, brings you back to the search result list. You can browse through the search result list with the function keys F5 and F6, without shifting between the file viewer and the search result list every time. If you discover a word you want to look further on, a double click on it is sufficient to take it as new search expression and start a new search. Up to 999 search result pages and search parameters can be stored in a database, from where they can be recalled via a register.
Author: Ingo Straub Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.inforapid.de/
Download v 3.1f (2003-07-12) (1014 KB)
http://www.inforapid.org/sr/sr.exe
Alternate download v 3.1f (2003-07-12) (1014 KB)
http://www.inforapid.de/sr/sr.exe
(desc. rev.: 2003-12-05)

ReplaceEm (was BK ReplaceEm)
(Donationware)
OS: Windows 9x/NT4/2000
Languages: English
Description: At its core, ReplaceEm is essentially a text search-and-replace program. However, unlike the search-replace functionality of a standard text editor, ReplaceEm is designed to operate on multiple files at once. And you need not only perform one search-replace operation per file -- you can setup a list of operations to perform. If different groups of files need to have different operations performed on them, this is no problem either. You can also specify a backup file for each file processed just in case the replace operation did not do exactly what you wanted.
Author: Bill Klein Company: Boolean Dream inc.
Home Page:
http://www.boolean.ca/
Program description:
http://www.boolean.ca/replace/
Download v 2.0 (572 KB)
http://www.boolean.ca/replace/bkrep20.exe
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-09)


Search Tool

Agent Ransack
(Liteware)
OS: Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English (help file available in French)
Description: Agent Ransack is a free tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently. When searching the contents of files Agent Ransack displays the text found so you can quickly browse the results without having to separately open each file! Agent Ransack provides compelling advantages over similar search tools: Regular expressions that allow complex rule based searches. Immediate contents results view. Various wizards to walk the user through the searching process. NOTES: registration requested, but not required (name and e-mail)
Author: David Vest Company: Mythicsoft
Home Page:
http://www.mythicsoft.com
Download page
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/download.aspx
Download v 1.7.3 (build 328) (2003-03-03) (1.5 MB)
http://www.mythicsoft.com/download/agentran.exe
(desc. rev.: 2003-12-05)


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