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From: davidl@leonardo.intel.com (David D. Levine)
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Subject: Re: Text file madness on the Mac.
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Date: 10 Jan 90 17:50:06 GMT
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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."