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HK

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On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:25:06 -0500, HK wrote:

I still like DOS if I am just manipulating text. I have an old IBM
internal application that does things you can't do with any Windoze
application. (at least not easily)

I used to use a typesetter front end that worked well under DOS.

I have a subset of the IBM E editor that has a lot of handy features
like column sorting, the ability to delete or insert characters and
block moving columns or rows instead of just highting up sequential
bytes like MS programs.
It is very easy to get from a flat text file to something you can load
into a spreadsheet or database. In a lot of cases you can avoid the
database or spreadsheet step entirely.
I also use it a lot for editing M3U files, adding network paths
globally and such.
IE I can make C:\dir\artist - song.mp3 into
\\server\sharedrive\artist - song.mp3 for 1000 songs with a minimal
number of keystrokes.

Do you use TIN for a newsreader, too? :}

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