[10.--] TEXT UTILITIES:
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[10.01] Compare Text In Files
[10.02] Editor
[10.03] Editor: Code
[10.04] Text Tools
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Please note, that nominator and second depend on the sequence I
read the postings (not necessarily in chronological order).
Second through a second nomination was possible and occurred.
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[10.01] Compare Text In Files
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PROGRAM_NAME: ExamDiff
VERSION: 1.8.0.2
RELEASE_DATE: 39563
HOMEPAGE: http://www.prestosoft.com/edp_examdiff.asp
DOWNLOAD: http://www.prestosoft.com/edp_examdiff.asp#download
WINDOWS_OS: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista (32/64-bit)
OTHER_OS:
DESCRIPTION: ExamDiff is a freeware Windows tool for visual file
comparison. It has a number of simple and convenient features that
many users have been asking for a long time from a file comparison
tool. No install also available.
REMARKS:
COMPANY: PrestoSoft LLC
AUTHOR: ---
NOMINATOR: Rom
SECOND: Caesar Romano
PROGRAM_NAME: WinMerge
VERSION: 2.10.0
RELEASE_DATE: 39708
HOMEPAGE: http://winmerge.org
DOWNLOAD: http://winmerge.org/downloads/index.php
WINDOWS_OS: Windows 98 - Vista (32/64-bit)
OTHER_OS:
DESCRIPTION: WinMerge is an Open Source (GPL) visual text file
differencing and merging tool for Windows. It is highly useful for
determing what has changed between project versions, and then merging
changes between versions.
REMARKS:
COMPANY: ---
AUTHOR: WinMerge team
NOMINATOR: Rom
SECOND: Craig
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[10.02] Editor
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PROGRAM_NAME: metapad
VERSION: 3.51 LE
RELEASE_DATE: 38683
HOMEPAGE: http://liquidninja.com/metapad
DOWNLOAD: http://liquidninja.com/metapad/download.html
WINDOWS_OS: 9x/NT/XP
OTHER_OS: none
DESCRIPTION: metapad is a small, fast (and completely free) text
editor for Windows 9x/NT/XP with similar features to Microsoft Notepad
but with many extra (and rather useful) features. It was designed to
completely replace Notepad since it includes all of Notepad's features
and much, much more.
metapad's enhanced feature set includes:
* Persistent window placement
* Dirty file notification
* Intelligent Find and Replace
* External viewer support (e.g. web browser)
* Usable accelerator keys (Ctrl+S, Ctrl+N, etc.)
* Dual customizable font support
* Optional Quick Exit (Esc key)
* Configurable tab stop setting
* Auto-indent mode
* Go to Line/Column
* Seamless UNIX text file support
* Block indent and unindent (Tab, Shift+Tab)
* Recent files list
* WYSIWYG printing
* Snazzy status bar & funky toolbar
* No file size limit! (under Win9x)
* Hyperlink support
* User interface language plugins
REMARKS:
COMPANY: ---
AUTHOR: Alexander Davidson
NOMINATOR: Caesar Romano
SECOND: Ron May
PROGRAM_NAME: NoteTab Light
VERSION: 5.7b
RELEASE_DATE: 39660
HOMEPAGE: http://www.notetab.com
DOWNLOAD: http://www.notetab.com/download.php
WINDOWS_OS: 9X to Vista
OTHER_OS: Intel-based Macs that are running Windows or Wine, and on
PowerPC Macs using Virtual PC. Will also run on UNIX/Linux systems
with Wine
DESCRIPTION: Full-featured tabbed text and HTML editor. Highly
customizable toolbar buttons. Handles large files. You can set up a
tab to be a pasteboard (or impromptu clipboard extender.) Use macros
to automate routine ooperations.
REMARKS:
COMPANY: Fookes Software Ltd
AUTHOR: Eric Fookes
NOMINATOR: Ron May
SECOND: John Pearce
PROGRAM_NAME: TED Notepad
VERSION: 5.0.3 Final
RELEASE_DATE: 39093
HOMEPAGE: http://jsimlo.sk/notepad
DOWNLOAD: http://jsimlo.sk/notepad/download.php
WINDOWS_OS: 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista
OTHER_OS: (compatible with Wine)
DESCRIPTION: (original description by author)
TED Notepad is a swiss-army-knife plain-text editor. It looks like a
small Notepad, but is much more fertile in innovative features, text-
processing functions and other versatile tools. All of them on
hotkeys; all designed for quicker and advanced editing. The light-
weight portable application fits on USB flash disk and loads instantly
with no installation required. TED Notepad is further designed
especially for hot-working structured text, lists, notes or even
scripts and html files. Main motto: Don't type, ted-it!
REMARKS: Recommended version for Win9x is 4.5.5
COMPANY: ---
AUTHOR: Juraj Simlovic Medvedik
NOMINATOR: kew
SECOND: John Fitzsimons
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[10.03] Editor: Code
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PROGRAM_NAME: EditPad Lite
VERSION: 6.4.3
RELEASE_DATE: 39669
HOMEPAGE: http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
DOWNLOAD: http://download.jgsoft.com/editpad/SetupEditPadLite.exe
WINDOWS_OS: WinAll
OTHER_OS:
DESCRIPTION: A fine text editor with all the necessary basic features.
Free for non-commercial use. An ideal replacement for Notepad.
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Second description:
You can open as many files in EditPad at a time as you want.
You change between the open files by clicking on their tabs. No hassle
with heaps of overlapping windows.
You will enjoy EditPad's unlimited undo and redo. You can even undo
changes after saving them, as long as you did not close the file.
EditPad reads and writes UNIX (LF only) and Mac (CR only) text files
(in addition to DOS/Windows CR+LF files, of course).
With EditPad you can directly edit Unicode text files and text files
encoded in a variety of legacy code pages. EditPad supports all
Windows and ISO-8859 code pages, plus a wide selection of DOS, KOI8
and EBCDIC code pages. This means EditPad can edit any text file,
whether it was saved on a Windows or Linux computer, an old DOS PC or
an IBM mainframe.
If you run EditPad again when there is already an instance running,
the file(s) you wish to edit will be opened by the existing EditPad
window. This means there will be at most one EditPad window open,
which will save you from a lot of task switching.
Of course, if you do need more instances, simply pick View|New editor
from the menu.
Block functions: save parts of your text to disk and insert a file in
the current text.
You can specify many print settings: font, margins, headers/footers,
etc. and immediately see the effects in the print preview.
You have the option to keep the EditPad window on top of all other
windows.
When you close an unsaved file, EditPad will either warn you,
automatically save the file as you prefer.
Reopen menu that lists the last 16 files opened.
EditPad puts an icon in the system tray that remains visible, even if
EditPad is closed. This way you have easy and fast access to EditPad,
without the need to keep it running all the time. If you do not like
this, you can, of course, disable this feature and make EditPad behave
like a normal Windows application.
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.
Many settings such as word wrap, line numbering and auto indent can be
made for each file type individually. You could activate word wrap but
not auto indent when editing a plain text file, and just the other way
around when editing source code. You can also define your own file
types which will be used to build the filters for open and save dialog
boxes.
Configure EditPad's appearance to your own taste and eyesight. Select
the colors, font face and font size that you like. Make text cursor
highly visible by selecting its size, color and blinking style. Make
the mouse pointer easy to spot by choosing its shape and colors.
Uppercase, lowercase, invert case and initial caps conversion
Easy and working installation and uninstallation, delivered with
DeployMaster.
Free for non-commercial use. (Professionals should use EditPad Pro)
REMARKS:
COMPANY: Just Great Software Co. Ltd.
AUTHOR: Jan Goyvaerts
NOMINATOR: Larry Sabo
SECOND: T0M
PROGRAM_NAME: Notepad++
VERSION: 5.0.3
RELEASE_DATE: 39663
HOMEPAGE: http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net
DOWNLOAD: http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/download.php
WINDOWS_OS: Win all
OTHER_OS:
DESCRIPTION: Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in
free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports
several languages. It runs in the MS Windows environment.
Based on a very powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is
written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher
execution speed and smaller program size. Its use is governed by GPL
Licence.
REMARKS:
COMPANY: ---
AUTHOR: Don HO
NOMINATOR: T0M
SECOND: kapok
PROGRAM_NAME: PSPad
VERSION: 4.5.3 (build 2298)
RELEASE_DATE: 39411
HOMEPAGE: http://www.pspad.com
DOWNLOAD: http://www.pspad.com/en/download.php
WINDOWS_OS: 32-bit Windows
OTHER_OS:
DESCRIPTION: Editor for developers for Microsoft Windows systems with a
wealth of formatting functions, including a spell checker.
REMARKS:
COMPANY: ---
AUTHOR: Jan Fiala
NOMINATOR: Craig
SECOND: F. Reeware
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[10.04] Text Tools
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PROGRAM_NAME: UnxUtils
VERSION:
RELEASE_DATE: 2003-04-14 (UnxUtils)
2003-10-25 (UnxUpdates)
HOMEPAGE: http://sourceforge.net/projects/unxutils
DOWNLOAD: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=9328
http://www.weihenstephan.de/~syring/win32/UnxUpdates.zip
WINDOWS_OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
OTHER_OS:
DESCRIPTION: GNU utilities for Win32 - some ports of common GNU utilities
to native Win32. In this context, native means the executables only depend
on the Microsoft C-runtime (msvcrt.dll) and not an emulation layer like
that provided by Cygwin tools.
REMARKS: BeAr: Compilation of common GNU commandline utilities to native
Win32. Compared to other implementations, the UnxUtils compilation consists
of very stable and fast tools with exceptional support of command line
switches. The installation directory should be added to the Windows search
path to use the tools from anywhere. Look here for a description:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310519 (The Path variable consists of a
list of fully qualified directory names, separated by semicolons.) The
collection contains: agrep.exe, ansi2knr.exe, basename.exe, bc.exe,
bison.exe, bunzip2.exe, bzip2.exe, bzip2recover.exe, cat.exe, chgrp.exe,
chmod.exe, chown.exe, cksum.exe, cmp.exe, comm.exe, compress.exe, cp.exe,
csplit.exe, cut.exe, date.exe, dc.exe, dd.exe, df.exe, diff.exe, diff3.exe,
dircolors.exe, dirname.exe, du.exe, echo.exe, egrep.exe, env.exe,
expand.exe, expr.exe, factor.exe, fgrep.exe, find.exe, flex.exe, fmt.exe,
fold.exe, fsplit.exe, gawk.exe, gclip.exe, gplay.exe, grep.exe, gsar.exe,
gunzip.exe, gzip.exe, head.exe, id.exe, indent.exe, install.exe, join.exe,
jwhois.exe, less.exe, lesskey.exe, ln.exe, logname.exe, ls.exe, m4.exe,
make.exe, makedepend.exe, makemsg.exe, man.exe, md5sum.exe, mkdir.exe,
mkfifo.exe, mknod.exe, mv.exe, mvdir.exe, nl.exe, od.exe, paste.exe,
patch.exe, pathchk.exe, pclip.exe, pr.exe, printenv.exe, printf.exe,
ptx.exe, pwd.exe, recode.exe, rm.exe, rman.exe, rmdir.exe, sdiff.exe,
sed.exe, seq.exe, sh.exe, sha1sum.exe, shar.exe, sleep.exe, sort.exe,
split.exe, stego.exe, su.exe, sum.exe, sync.exe, tac.exe, tail.exe,
tar.exe, tee.exe, test.exe, touch.exe, tr.exe, tsort.exe, type.exe,
uname.exe, unexpand.exe, uniq.exe, unrar.exe, unshar.exe, unzip.exe,
uudecode.exe, uuencode.exe, wc.exe, wget.exe, which.exe, whoami.exe,
xargs.exe, yes.exe, zcat.exe, zip.exe, zsh.exe
COMPANY: ---
AUTHOR: Karl M. Syring (for porting and the package)
NOMINATOR: kew
SECOND: B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson
