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Re: Looking for: Editor for Windows 3.x that has drag-and-d
Subject:Re: Looking for: Editor for Windows 3.x that has drag-and-d From:Bruce Covell <brucec -at- CCTECH -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 24 Jan 1997 04:03:04 +0000
Agree! It also woeks very well in a mixed Windows/UNIX environment.
It easily opens a UNIX formatted text file in Windows and
automatically saves it in the original UNIX format. Quite useful when
you need to edit UNIX text files on your PC and return them to their
UNIX home.
Bruce Covell
San Jose, CA
> I believe the package you want is PFE (Programmer's File Editor).
> This is an excellent FREEWARE program available in both 16-bit and
> 32-bit versions. It not only supports drag and drop, it does drag
> and drop from the desktop, can be easily tailored for any language
> (even HTML/SGML) and has a neat keystroke recording function. I have
> used it on text files of upto 17MB without any problem.
>
> the URL for the windows 3.x version is:
>
>http://148.88.8.181:80/people/cpaap/pfe/pfe0602.zip
>
> P.S. I have no affiliation with this tool of the author, I just
> think it's excellent.
>
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