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NOTE: In a departure from previous practice the 2008 Pricelessware List was archived (in October 2008) when the Pricelessware selection process was complete. Versions of programs that are in active development will not change and program names will not be updated. Programs that become Shareware will not be removed. The acf Program Index links to acf program description pages that may have more current information than the PL2008 web pages. [10.01] Compare Text In Files [10.02] Editor [10.03] Editor: Code [10.04] Text Tools ====================================================================== [10.01] Compare Text In Files ====================================================================== 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: --- PROGRAM_NAME: WinMerge VERSION: 2.10.0 RELEASE_DATE: 2008-9-17 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 ====================================================================== [10.02] Editor ====================================================================== PROGRAM_NAME: metapad VERSION: 3.51 LE RELEASE_DATE: 2005-11-27 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 PROGRAM_NAME: NoteTab Light VERSION: 5.7b RELEASE_DATE: 2008-7-31 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 PROGRAM_NAME: TED Notepad VERSION: 5.0.3 Final RELEASE_DATE: 2007-1-11 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 ====================================================================== [10.03] Editor: Code ====================================================================== PROGRAM_NAME: Notepad++ VERSION: 5.0.3 RELEASE_DATE: 2008-8-3 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 ====================================================================== [10.04] Text Tools ====================================================================== 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)
