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From: lai@Apple.COM (Ed Lai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Text file madness on the Mac.
Message-ID: <37752@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 11 Jan 90 00:59:53 GMT
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In article <781@gandalf.littlei.UUCP> davidl@leonardo.intel.com (David D. Levine) writes:
>> 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.
>

If someone is looking for a free "Pager", he may consider the clipboard
magician DA available SUMEX. The DA contains two text editors. If you really
want a text editor DA then it is not good enough. But if you want something
that is free and can display text, it should be good enough. The first editor
is based on TextEdit, really basic but probably no worse than TeachText and
it also allows different font and different point size. The second editor
is based on PEEdit from Capps Editor toolkit, which means that there is no
32K limit (still limit by RAM size) but lines cannot be too long so it is good
for program listing. It can read from Text file or Text resource. To read
from WORD file, what I do is use the command that just reads the data fork
and then declare the data to be TEXT, usually the content is quite readable.
And since almost everything is done by code resource, it should not be
difficult to add extension to read MacWrite files etc. There is also a Grep
command, but it is only used to replace text. Data can be saved another file
(or append to another file). It is free and it can also do a lot of other
things that has nothing to do with TEXT.

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