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Article #45166Re: Text file madness on the Mac.
From: David D. Levine
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1990 17:50
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1990 17:50
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> The real question remains: why hasn't anyone written a "Pager" utility? > (display text in 9pt monoco, scroll, let the mouse copy selections to the > clipboard, possibly write text in MacWrite format or print it out.) Surprisingly enough, I use the ancient DA "Grep-WC" for this purpose. This is a DA that does limited regular expression search (Grep) and word counts (WC). It can read both TEXT and MacWrite files; it can put its output to the screen or to the screen and a TEXT file. It has a "Pause" button so you can pause and resume scrolling. It's free. The trick is that the default pattern matches all lines, so if you start it up and "search" a file, it just displays the file. This can also be used to translate MacWrite files to TEXT. It's one of my favorite DAs of all time! - David D. Levine, Intel IMSO Tech Pubs davidl@leonardo.intel.com "We control the horizontal; we control the vertical."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!unmvax!ogicse!littlei!leonardo.intel.com!davidl From: davidl@leonardo.intel.com (David D. Levine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Text file madness on the Mac. Message-ID: <781@gandalf.littlei.UUCP> Date: 10 Jan 90 17:50:06 GMT References: <1221@mountn.dec.com> <1998@eric.mpr.ca> <115@lad.scs.com> Sender: news@littlei.UUCP Distribution: na Organization: Intel IMSO Tech Pubs Lines: 17