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ms said:
Thanks, Alan.
It may be the difference in time zones, but I don't see it yet. I can
remember before when alt.binaries.freeware had about 12 messages, now
it's 90% spam.
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I can't either. There has always been a problem with abf and my ISP
though, so most of the time I see nothing at all there. I also got some
strange message about attachment size being too big. If it doesn't show
up there, all I can suggest is that you give me an e-mail addy to send
it to (munged/disguised or whatever).
 
Alan said:
I can't either. There has always been a problem with abf and my ISP
though, so most of the time I see nothing at all there. I also got some
strange message about attachment size being too big. If it doesn't show
up there, all I can suggest is that you give me an e-mail addy to send
it to (munged/disguised or whatever).
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I see lots of posts there, but nearly all spam. Anyway, try
mikedon'twantshap at teledon'twantport and usual dotcom should do it. Of
course, do not include the don'twant to use it.

To reduce the file size, you could reduce all language files except
English. I frequently do that and then rezip to save the smaller file on
my hd.

Thanks again for your efforts,

Mike Sa
 
ms said:
I see lots of posts there, but nearly all spam. Anyway, try
mikedon'twantshap at teledon'twantport and usual dotcom should do it.
Of course, do not include the don'twant to use it.

To reduce the file size, you could reduce all language files except
English. I frequently do that and then rezip to save the smaller file
on my hd.

Thanks again for your efforts,
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Well, I set up a webmail account and sent it off to the addy you gave.
It *appears* to have gone on its way, so here's hoping.

If, per chance, you happen to be able to d/l
http://mysite.verizon.net/res1ur2j/TLVOB6.zip, I'd really appreciate a
copy of that at the return addy of my post. I've had awful trouble
getting this, despite the efforts of GamePlayer. It appears that there's
a routing problem upstream of my ISP (not their fault again... surprise,
surprise!) and I can't get to that site.

hope you get it, anyway... finally :)
 
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Thanks, Boomer, lots of features but it appears to be a 15 MB install,
way too big on my HD.

Mike Sa
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The freeware version is 1.61 mb download. Installed is ~2 mb

regards

Dud
 
Alan said:
Well, I set up a webmail account and sent it off to the addy you gave.
It *appears* to have gone on its way, so here's hoping.

If, per chance, you happen to be able to d/l
http://mysite.verizon.net/res1ur2j/TLVOB6.zip, I'd really appreciate a
copy of that at the return addy of my post. I've had awful trouble
getting this, despite the efforts of GamePlayer. It appears that there's
a routing problem upstream of my ISP (not their fault again... surprise,
surprise!) and I can't get to that site.

hope you get it, anyway... finally :)
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Thanks much, Alan, the PsPad file arrived fine and works.
I sent a reply to you early this AM and just sent you the file you
requested. I hope the messages get to you, if not I will repeat them
here in the ng.

Mike Sa
 
Duddits said:
The freeware version is 1.61 mb download. Installed is ~2 mb

regards

Dud
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Thanks, Dud, but I look for small (<1 MB) executable files.

I remember those noteworthy sigs you used to have.

Mike Sa
 
Get PSEDIT here: http://www.pspad.com/index_en.html
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It REFORMATS text to fit whatever character line length you choose ...
AND ... those line lengths stay put!! That's important. You can get any
old run-of-the-mill text editor or word-processor (even MS Word) to fit
within
two margins. But, just try saving that document, and then opening it up in
a different editor. Chances are ... back to the original line lengths or
even a single humongous long line of countless thousands of characters. No
so
after you have reformatted it with PSPAD, which removes carriage returns
and replaces them where you want them.
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Well, IF it does what you say then that is very handy. I tried it on a
150k line file and waited, and waited, and waited.......until I got
tired of waiting and stopped the process.

I then went to NoteTab (Pro - don't know if it's in the freeware
version) and selected Modify - Lines - Reformat lines. That took only
a matter of a few second to change the character line length slightly
and reduce the line count to 145k.

After saving that and opening it in two text editors (one of the
Barry's Emacs) I saw the line length as about 101k !

Looks to me like this re structuring of lines is still a bit of a
problem. Certainly with very large files.

Regards, John.
 
No question that PSPAD does do that ... and easily. Dunno what you
did wrong or did not do. My tests are all pretty conclusive and definitive.
For really l-o-o-o-n-g files, I go shopping at the Gutenberg library
archives
to pull down several pieces of literature in the range of 200K to 2Meg of
text.
Ordinarily, the pieces come bracketed between 0-80 characters. Loading
one of them up into PSPAD brings up the literature in its original 80 chr
spread.
Then I point-and-click on .... say a right margin of 45. Then I go up to
the
pull down option for Edit/Select All. Then I pull down the option for
Format/Block Format/Reformat Text. Voila ... in a matter of maybe 5-10
seconds, the entire piece is fitting within the 0-45 character space width.
Then
I save it ... and proceed to open the saved result in some other editors.
All of
them depicted within 0-45 character spaces.

What steps did you omit? Maybe you did not first SELECT to highlight it
all?

Regards Alex
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Where is this method of posting described as "prefered" in this
newsgroup?
I already know the gist of the subject by its title. I do not want to
have to wade through what someone else may have determined as
quotable.
 
Want to re-format paragraph text at a particular column really
quickly?
Look on one of the Dos archive sites for a small program called
sleek.com ( or sleek.exe) - around 20-30k. Reformats text REALLY
quickly.
e.g sleek -45 file.txt
Creates an output file with an O appended somewhere in the name (can't
recall where). Output can be piped to a specific file as well.
 
Yes ... I've used Sleek before, or something like it back in DOS days,
but that isn't an editor program, just a margin setter.
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Want to re-format paragraph text at a particular column really
quickly?
Look on one of the Dos archive sites for a small program called
sleek.com ( or sleek.exe) - around 20-30k. Reformats text REALLY
quickly.
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Is that sleek51.zip ?

http://www.simtel.net/product.php?id=51664&cid=298

Docs say :

SLK.EXE is shareware. If you try it out, find it useful and
go on using it - please register it. Registration is only
$10.00.

A freeware version of such a program would be VERY handy IMO. If it
was one that could handle very large files.

Regards, John.
 
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 11:48:16 +1000, John Fitzsimons >Is that
sleek51.zip ?
http://www.simtel.net/product.php?id=51664&cid=298

Docs say :

SLK.EXE is shareware. If you try it out, find it useful and
go on using it - please register it. Registration is only
$10.00.

A freeware version of such a program would be VERY handy IMO. If it
was one that could handle very large files.
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you have one already, john, unless i've misunderstood.

fmt.exe from the unxutils does this.


jack
dlrow dednah-thgir a ni tfirda
 
That is it. I had thought it was freeware. Maybe it was, as I'm
talking about 10-15 years ago.

In the mean time John, have a look here at the archives that Richard
L. Green keeps here http://members.cox.net/dos/txtfrmt.htm

e.g LM- Multi-purpose text file formatter, search-replace, and more


There are a ton of really useful tools in the archive.



John Fitzsimons said:
On 12 Sep 2003 21:42:08 -0700, (e-mail address removed) (bliksem) wrote:

Want to re-format paragraph text at a particular column really
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quickly?
Look on one of the Dos archive sites for a small program called
sleek.com ( or sleek.exe) - around 20-30k. Reformats text REALLY
quickly.
 
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 11:48:16 +1000, John Fitzsimons >Is that
sleek51.zip ?
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you have one already, john, unless i've misunderstood.
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fmt.exe from the unxutils does this.
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Umm. Yes, didn't you send me that ? I don't see a copy anywhere but in
my Python/Emacs directories. I have had a look at the unix utilities a
number of times but IIRC haven't had the time/patience to work out
how to get them running on windows. The DOS utilities by Juan M.
Aguirregabiria on the other hand seem far easier to understand/use.

Regards, John.
 
No question that PSPAD does do that ... and easily. Dunno what you
did wrong or did not do. My tests are all pretty conclusive and definitive.
For really l-o-o-o-n-g files, I go shopping at the Gutenberg library
archives
to pull down several pieces of literature in the range of 200K to 2Meg of
text.
Ordinarily, the pieces come bracketed between 0-80 characters. Loading
one of them up into PSPAD brings up the literature in its original 80 chr
spread.
Then I point-and-click on .... say a right margin of 45. Then I go up to
the
pull down option for Edit/Select All. Then I pull down the option for
Format/Block Format/Reformat Text. Voila ... in a matter of maybe 5-10
seconds, the entire piece is fitting within the 0-45 character space width.
Then
I save it ... and proceed to open the saved result in some other editors.
All of
them depicted within 0-45 character spaces.

What steps did you omit? Maybe you did not first SELECT to highlight it
all?

Regards Alex
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That's really really great Alex! At long last I know how to reformat a
long text file to wrap at the line width of x amount of characters
without resorting to using Word and setting up the page to 2 1/4" left
and 3 3/4 right, then saving it as text ASCII.

Word really hates that, but I know what I want.

I saw your earlier message about PS PAD, selected all, <CTL-A>, put a
right margin at 65 lines, but nothing happened.

You put the answer in about Format/Block Format/Reformat Text. All is
great now!!!! (am I happy?)

Trevor
=====
¶ Bumper sticker: 'All the parts falling off this car are of the
very finest manufacture'
 
Umm. Yes, didn't you send me that ? I don't see a copy anywhere but in
my Python/Emacs directories.
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your emacs option 'Tools/Wrap all' is using fmt.exe underneath.


jack
the giraffe is too tall to go through the tunnel
 
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