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From: ltf@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Lance Franklin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: TEXT File madness
Message-ID: <10882@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 7 Jan 90 23:44:50 GMT
References: <10308@zodiac.ADS.COM>
Reply-To: ltf@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Lance Franklin)
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection BBS, Dallas, Tx
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In article <10308@zodiac.ADS.COM> jtn@zodiac.ADS.COM (John Nelson) writes:
>Better yet the application you
>used should give the file a TeachText creator if none other is
>specified since TeachText is available on the system installation
>disks.

Well, there is a problem with TeachText...there's a limit to the length of
the file you can feed it...try a 220k text file sometimes (like forinstance
a capture from a long session)

What's needed is a general purpose file lister that works with TEXT-type
files...It should have no file-length limits, work with a non-proportional
font (and perhaps look at the first few k's of the file to determine the
size of the font for the best line length for the file), should have a
horizontal slider for those extra-long lines, include a string-search
capability and a hex display option...oh, and a couple of different filters
for the input would be nice...an ansi-control filter, a bit-8 filter and
a non-printable character filter would do the job.

Oh, and a DA version that could display any of a number of files (picked from
a list kept in a document in the system folder) would be nice for keeping
those documents around that you reference often...program references, BBS
lists, phone numbers, etc.

Lance


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