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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 25 Feb 2008.
Re: Text editor

Re: Text editor

In article <Xns9A4F1B38C55C5antontxtgmailcom@85.214.90.236>, Anton 
wrote:
> > http://www.jave.de/
> 
>   Well, looks nice, but its focus is shifted towards  ACSII-art,
>   as against ASCII-craft (which is what I need...).
>
       Ah, I think I see where you're coming from.
       A while ago I was regularly having to do alignment of columns of 
numbers in ASCII (well, LAS - Log ASCII Standard) data files. Also 
inserting space for new columns of data, re-arranging columns of data, 
extracting some columns. Then our pet programmer put necessary code 
together for importing and exporting these files (instead of working 
directly with the LAS files, after indexing) and doing the necessary 
manipulations. At the time it was a toss-up for ease-of-use between 
using Excel (or 123, depending on what a machine had got on it) or 
using a ASCII editor called (IIRC) MegaEdit.
       Is it still available?
       Sorry, it's not coming up on Google - a PalmOS application seems 
to have hijacked the name.
       Someone else ( http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-
software-2/win-text-editor-that-saves-unix-format-273950/ ) remembers 
MegaEdit, and his timing (hasn't seen it since 2000~ ) chimes with my 
experience. That's about when we got our in-house solution to our needs 
and stopped paying for it.
       http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~gknapp/knapp19.html (CHEESY MUSIC 
WARNING! ) gives a couple of links to it ... which don't work. But it 
looks as if the files (without installer) are at 
http://files.chatnfiles.com/Microforum%20-%20Worlds%20Largest%
20Collection%20of%20Windows%20Software%20-%202/TEXTPROC/MEGAEDIT/ 
       
       It looks to me as if it's "abandonware", but I wouldn't be sure 
about the legality of using it ; I know that we had to chase around to 
get licenses for the several copies we had on various machines - which 
was part of the reason that we ended up doing the job in-house.
       
-- 
 Aidan in Scotland
 Written at Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:05 GMT, but posted later.

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