[Discussion] TextHelper 1.07

[Don Hawkinson]

TextHelper is ,a text manipulation tool.  Have you ever
received an email that you wanted to print but it needed to
be reformatted? Have you ever received an email that had
been forwarded or quoted many times?  Have you ever
tried to print text that came from a unix or linux system?
TextHelper can fix any of those problems and many others.

TextHelper is a PM program  based on the MultiLineEditor
class from the IBM Open Class Library.  I have added text
manipulation functions and support for printing on HP
Deskjet and Laserjet printers. TextHelper is not intended to
replace any fully functional editor other than E or AE.
TextHelper (refered to as TH) does not modify any system
files when it is installed, although it does create a program
object on the desktop.  The trial version of TH does not
have any time resatrictions, although it does have nag
screens.  TH has been tested on the eCS Silver release.

TH can be configured to generate an automatic backup of
any file that is modified. The backup file will have a number
appended to the file name so that "config.sys" would
become"config.sys.001".  The next time "config.sys" was
edited, the backup file would become "config.sys.002".

TH will warn you if it has detected that changes have been
made without saving the contents of the editor.

TH supports long file names. The registered version will
allow you to mark descriptive text in the editor and use it
as the file name. TH can be configured to convert spaces in
the marked text into underscore characters in the file
name.

One mouse click can open another copy of TH to work with more
than one file.  This can be done multiple times.

One mouse click will open a new copy of TH and grab text
from the clipboard and minimize that copy of TH.  This can
be done multiple times.

Some of the text manipulation functions are:

* removing forwarding marks from saved email messages
think of multiple forwarding of a really good joke

* reformatting plain ascii text to increase or decrease the
number of characters per line.

* strip leading or trailing spaces from text or remove
multiple spaces from text.

* remove blank lines from text

* ROT13 - see the online help for an explaination of ROT13

* Envelope addressing if you have a HP DJ compatible
printer

* TH has too many functions to list here.

TH may be registered for $10 (US).

I suggest that you download the trial version of TH
and install it.  Keep it on your desktop and when you
have found a use for it, please register it.

To download a trial copy of the TH help file use the
following link: http://dwhawkinson.com/free/ths_107.zip

Tp see all of my shareware and free utility programs use
this link:  http://dwhawkinson.com