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From: taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: DISPLAYING TEXT FROM DISK FILE...
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Date: 18 Mar 91 21:30:03 GMT
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From mkheintz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Michael Heintz):

> I would like a program similar to long play which would allow
> me to view a text file directly from disk.  Is there a program
> like this out there?  I would also like to have editing
> capability from within the program (basically selecting areas
> and saving them to the clipboard or scrapbook).

    Try Stowe Keller's Lister utility (P8-based, but excellent nonetheless). I
have version 2.1, but there may or may not be an update to that.  It will read
in ANY unforked file and display it as text (you can specify the line
terminator) or as a binary dump.  It only loads in the portion of the file you
are looking at, so it the display is EXTREMELY quick.  There isn't any editing
capability in version 2.1, but you can do string/byte searches and extract
portions of the file to disk.

Brian T. Tao   *B-) |  t569taob@bluffs.scar.utoronto.ca  | "Though this be
U of Metro Toronto  |               - or -               |  madness, yet there
Scarberia, ON       |        taob@pnet91.cts.com         |  is method in 't."