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WU-05: Miscellaneous
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#0301 Converters & Other Utils. Small Programs Disk
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#0301 Converters
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WP_ASCII
Hidalgo, John R.
$5
converts a wordprocessor document to an ASCII format. The wordprocessors
supported at this point are WordPerfect, WordStar, and Microsoft Word. Since
these word processors will save in ASCII, this is of use primarily for people
who get the encoded data files and do not own the programs.
XWord
Gans, Ronald
$15
is a general file format transformer that converts files from one format to
another.
#0301 Other
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Add-head (ADD-HD)
Winer, Dave
this is by the author of ThinkTank and Ready! that helps you import information
into those programs. (Not on this Disk. Ask for January 1986 #1)
Comment 2.81 (COMNTSW)
Wenzel, Scott
$6-$15
is a random quote generating program.
File-It
Rabinowitz, Chip
$20
is a quick-reference bibliographic tool which maintains and retrieves an indexed
database for you. It consists of three files: FILE-IT.EXE (the program
itself), FILE-IT.CAT (the category file), and FILE-IT.LST (the data itself).
Invent 2.1
Crew, Louie
$7
helps writers invent fresh metaphors. It prompts the user to supply nouns,
verbs, adjectives and adverbs. It randomly scrambles the entries to provide
novel arrangements. In testing it did display a list of metaphors, but it ended
with "ERR 5 AT PGM-CTR: 1916".
LCNT 3.0
Eyer, Bob
$0
is a very fast line counter for small to very large files. LCNT uses the
linefeed character to identify line terminations, rather than the usual
carriage return, which provides a more accurate count with some word
processors' files.
Macro1
Hogshead, Tom
$0
contains six QEdit macros to make it easy to convert macros to and from
text/binary using the QMAC macro translator from SemWare.
Quickie 3.24
Pruitt, Fred
$20
is targeted at business users, students, government offices, anyone who has to
compile reports from more that one document. It lets the user page through
multiple files and mark text excerpts for retention in an output file, which can
then be imported using a word processor or editor. It can read pure ASCII files
with lines terminated by carriage returns, Wang WP, pfs:Write, Wordstar, and
OfficeWriter 5.0 document formats with no external translation. Also the output
file can be stored in a form with hard carriage returns only at the end of
paragraphs for easier importing and reformatting in various word processors.
QuickLetter 2.1 (QUIKLTR)
Gregory, Timothy
$10
makes it easy to send the occasional form letter to someone. Using the built-in
editor, you can create a form letter with name, address and any other variables
you want built in. When you are ready to send a form, you select the form you
want loaded; the program prompts you for data for each of the variables; and
creates a letter with the data inserted in it.
It appears that only one variable is allowed per line. While this works like a
mail-merge program, it actually competes with forms management software. It is
fast and easy to use for its intended purpose.
WHAT?format (WHATFMT)
Boots & Pepper
$15
identifies the program used to create a specified file. It can distinguish among
30 of the most popular word processors, including different versions of the same
program. It can also identify ASCII, EBCDIC, PostScript, PCL, etc., as well as
database, spreadsheet, graphic, archives, Windows fonts and other formats. If
you have ever come across a data file and did not know what type it was, this is
the utility for you.
WHAT?format will also set errorlevel for use by a batch file. A batch file is
included that shows you how to use this utility to sort different types of
graphics files into different subdirectories.
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END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #0301
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#1952 Creativity and Word Counters
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195#2 Creativity
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Creative Chaos 2.1 (C-CHAOS)
Lunde, Evan
$12
pulls together pieces of text from script files in a controlled but randomized
way, leading to unpredictable and potentially interesting results. It can be
used to break through writer's block to get ideas for a story or even to
generate lottery numbers or create "interesting" menus.
Micro Flowchart Aid 1.0 (MFA)
Wayne-Tech Software
$25
is a text based program that will help you organize thoughts and ideas in the
form of a flowchart. The work space consists of six cells across and 99 down.
Any of 30 different symbols and lines can be entered into a cell at the press
of a key. Text can then be added to the symbols, such as inside a decision
box.
ThotPlnr (THOTPLN)
THOTSystems, Inc.
$30
is for brainstorming and outline generating. It will allow you to record ideas
and group similar ideas under major categories, assign priority in outline form,
and realign them according to the perspective in which you wish to consider
them. This is not a new program, but it is well written and looks slick.
#1952 Word Counters
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Count
Wind, Jon
$0
counts words and lines in a text line. What makes this one interesting is that
you can tell it a series of files to sum using DOS wildcards or naming the files
individually on the command line. So if your book, for example, is broken into
files by chapter, you can easily get a total count of words and lines in all the
chapters. An optional switch lets COUNT ignore blank lines.
EzCount
Conkey, Don and Conkey, Sharyn
$10
is a fast, accurate, flexible, fully-documented word counter you can use on
Wordstar 3.XX and ASCII files.
WordFreq (WORDFRE)
charts the usage of different length words in a text file.
Words
generates an alphabetical listing of words in a file along with the number
of times each word was used.
Words (WORDSEF)
Floyd, Edwin T.
$0
is a fast word extractor program. It will extract a list of unique "words" from
an input file, or several input files, and writes them to an output file, one
per line. The program recognizes a number of options for: Set operations on
multiple files, case sensitivity, high-order bit stripping, alphabetic output
sort, and defining the characters comprising a "word". Possible uses for such a
utility could be to create a word list file for a spelling checker or to create
a list of variable names used in a program,
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END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #1952
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#2998 Misc. Word Proc. Utilities Small Programs Disk
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Adrsnvlp 1.0 (ADRSNVL)
Sawada, Dr. Masaaki
$10-$20
is a utility that addresses envelopes and labels captured from database
programs. Options include the ability to indent, space, center, justify. Epson
compatible printer required.
Column Formatted Sort 1.20 (CFS)
Schmehl, Steven L.
$0
sorts column formatted text files on up to 9 keys. Key fields are selected
from a field mask displayed on the screen.
HyperSee 1.4 (HYPRSEE)
Newman, Norman
$25
[March 1994 CD]
displays in a hypertext format, ASCII text files created with any text editor
or word processor which will save in straight ASCII. We like HyperSee because
it is extremely simple, yet it works. It does not support graphics, but for a
text-based system, it has the advantage of being small enough (17k) to include
on shareware disks for viewing program documentation files.
Index
Haley, Greg
automatically creates an index for any text file using a list of words that you
provide.
LegalDoc (LEGALDO)
contains over 100 different legal documents that any business could use,
from leasing or purchasing equipment, assignments of lien, power of attorney,
promissory notes, zoning requests, many letters and much more.
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