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Quoting Christopher Tracey <ctracey@enviroweb.org>: (...) I was going to let it slide, but why use anything but vim? it has a nice windows GUI, and can do anything (include fetch you a sode from the vending machine :) Dan (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) i've done ~220 files at once... textpad does not seem to have a limit so far in every test. i've had >150,000 line files open in it with out a problem- contrast that to the 65,000 line limit in word or excel. (...) definately, one of the best (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) *drool* I'm running it under Win2k, but with only 256mb RAM. Need to upgrade... not too familiar with prices though, and it's a laptop, so bound to be pricey. I'd love to upgrade the HD too...20 GB just ain't enough for my MP3 usage ;-) I've (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) YES!!! I did this the other week for some of the castle world pages. It had never come up for me before until that occasion, but yeah -- Textpad will replace a given piece of text in all open files. I don't know if it had a limit but I had (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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David Eaton <deaton@intdata.com> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: H7DtC2.CM3@lugnet.com... (...) with (...) wacky (...) wasn't saying batch coding is programming. the stress was meant to be on "simple" and on the mistaking batch coding for programming. (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Oh, I would usually scoff anyone who called themselves a programmer for having written batch code, but this stuff was fully fledged programming. My boss had me doing testing on a linker that was written for a DSP. It started as "maybe you (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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<snip> (...) have (...) on (...) was (...) <snip> and <sigh> oh dear, yup those were the days, writing simple batch files and people calling you a programer. my computers were organized and navigated with batch files since 92 because windows was so (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Or get PERL for Windows (URL) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) There may be some batch commands you can use, but I'm not sure offhand-- I used to be somewhat of a whiz with Windows NT batch (1), but it's been a while... not to mention that I know Windows 95/98 didn't have the same functionality for "for" (...) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) try textpad (IMO the best text editor for the win-systems). you can download a version at www.textpad.com. there is a feature in the find-replace dialog where you can replace text in mulitple files at once. -chris (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'm on a pretty straightforward XP 98 system, alas. Maybe I should just pay some neighborhood kids to do it for me... Thank you for the input, though. Dave! (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) or, if you have perl (windows or unix), you can do this: perl -i.bak -p -e 's/ABCS/WXYZ/g' *.txt which will create a backup (file.txt.bak) before changing all 'ABCD' to 'WXYZ'. :) Dan (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Are you on windows? (if so I don't know) or on UNIX/linux? If you're on UNIX or linus you could use sed. Somethign like: (this is untested so YMMV) for FILE in *.txt; do if sed 's/ABCD/WXYZ/g' < $FILE >$FILE.new; then mv $FILE.new $FILE else (...) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hello all: I have a bunch of text files, each of which contains a character sequence (say, ABCD) that I need to change (say, to WXYZ). The character sequence is within the body of each file, rather than the title. Is there an easy method of swapping (...) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yes. But SLA's are rarely enforced because apparently dropping a screwdriver in a DMS battery frame is considered an act of god. Calum (formerly employed by Canada's largest backbone provider) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Is that something that gets promised in the SLA?* ;) Allan B. *Service Level Agreement - a term that gets bandied about in our offices... especially when something's gone down and someone needs to point a finger. (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) True. I just wanted to call attention to this stuff in case someone had the sense that things were supposed to look better but for some seemingly unknown reason they did not look better -- and without tweaking they will not come to look better (...) (22 years ago, 17-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) [snip] Or: 1. Install Mozilla 2. Never use IE again. (22 years ago, 17-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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It occurs to me that many people are probably using IE 6 by now; at the same time most people are likely unaware of some weird and poorly chosen default settings in the browser. Now this may seem off-topic, and I have set followups accordingly, but (...) (22 years ago, 16-Dec-02, to lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I don't recall any movie stating, "And it has N decks," but I do admit I'm trying my hardest to forget Insurrection. Okay, not quite my hardest; people keep telling me there was a movie between _The Voyage Home_ and _The Undiscovered (...) (22 years ago, 16-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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