Free tools for the "Pick" community

#1

Some search, compare and editing programs are available at:
http://www.tom-phillips.info/

These are programs that I find useful in my daily program development tasks.

They run in R83 mode under Universe, and of course, in all of the other R83
flavors.

Specifically, I use qed instead of the Universe editor which I found was
typing intensive.
Besides - I missed the "p" commands.
It's very similar to the R83 line editor with a few enhancement.

I would appreciate any feedback.
Tom Phillips

#2

Goo'day, Tom,

On Fri, 19 May 2006 01:10:20 -0400, "Tom Phillips"
<squash (AT) computer (DOT) org> wrote:

Quote:

Some search, compare and editing programs are available at:
http://www.tom-phillips.info/

These are programs that I find useful in my daily program development tasks.

They run in R83 mode under Universe, and of course, in all of the other R83
flavors.

Specifically, I use qed instead of the Universe editor which I found was
typing intensive.

???

Quote:

Besides - I missed the "p" commands.

Actually, and I'm being a bit careful here, it is, I believe, an
easier and better task using the UV "pre-store" process.... Granted,
you have to get used to it, but it really was the most endearing thing
to come out of my conversion to UV.... And, not terribly well
documented back then....

By use of the &ED& file, you can store all of your "pre-store"
commands, recalling them at will...

ED &ED& BN
BN
0001 E
0002 G9
0003 R/0403/0404
0004 FI
0005 .X BN

This is a simple example... the "E" in attr 1 is mandatory, and then
what follows is a list of the ED instructions you require in the
sequence you require them, ending with a "recursuive call" back on
itself if you want a list of items edited...... Very similar, but, I
think, easier to read and verify..... You can call other &ED&
pre-store items as one line of instruction, should you desire...

Then in editing the item/list, simply issue the instruction
..X<space>itemname and you're away.. It's still there in &ED& for the
next time, if you want.....A description of the pre-store instruction
can be placed after the "E" in Attr 1....

And, if you forget/neglect to set your pre-store in place before
entering ED you can always XEQ ED &ED& itemname from within ED, and
then call it....

YMMV

Quote:

It's very similar to the R83 line editor with a few enhancement.

I would appreciate any feedback.
Tom Phillips

Regards,

Bruce Nichol
Talon Computer Services
ALBURY NSW Australia

http://www.taloncs.com.au

If it ain't broke, fix it until it is....

#3

Different strokes Bruce, here's how I do it...

SELECT file WITH xxx "0403"
QED file
P1 G9{R/0403/0404{FI{P1
P1

Done. All items changed. No secondary edits to the md... nothing to clean
up.
Thanks for the interest though,
Tom...

"Bruce Nichol" <reverse_ecurb (AT) taloncs (DOT) com.au> wrote

Quote:

Goo'day, Tom,

On Fri, 19 May 2006 01:10:20 -0400, "Tom Phillips"
squash (AT) computer (DOT) org> wrote:

Some search, compare and editing programs are available at:
http://www.tom-phillips.info/

These are programs that I find useful in my daily program development
tasks.

They run in R83 mode under Universe, and of course, in all of the other
R83
flavors.

Specifically, I use qed instead of the Universe editor which I found was
typing intensive.

???

Besides - I missed the "p" commands.

Actually, and I'm being a bit careful here, it is, I believe, an
easier and better task using the UV "pre-store" process.... Granted,
you have to get used to it, but it really was the most endearing thing
to come out of my conversion to UV.... And, not terribly well
documented back then....

By use of the &ED& file, you can store all of your "pre-store"
commands, recalling them at will...

ED &ED& BN
BN
0001 E
0002 G9
0003 R/0403/0404
0004 FI
0005 .X BN

This is a simple example... the "E" in attr 1 is mandatory, and then
what follows is a list of the ED instructions you require in the
sequence you require them, ending with a "recursuive call" back on
itself if you want a list of items edited...... Very similar, but, I
think, easier to read and verify..... You can call other &ED&
pre-store items as one line of instruction, should you desire...

Then in editing the item/list, simply issue the instruction
.X<space>itemname and you're away.. It's still there in &ED& for the
next time, if you want.....A description of the pre-store instruction
can be placed after the "E" in Attr 1....

And, if you forget/neglect to set your pre-store in place before
entering ED you can always XEQ ED &ED& itemname from within ED, and
then call it....

YMMV

It's very similar to the R83 line editor with a few enhancement.

I would appreciate any feedback.
Tom Phillips

Regards,

Bruce Nichol
Talon Computer Services
ALBURY NSW Australia

http://www.taloncs.com.au

If it ain't broke, fix it until it is....

#4

I have also added one tool to my freeware page which includes a couple
MV utilities.

ExcelExport.exe will reach into a .XLS file and extract all worksheets
into unique CSV files. For those of you who ask "how do I get from
Excel data into my MV app, you can easily execute this from BASIC and
then read the results. I can provide a couple lines of code to
convert the quoted, comma-delimited CSV to plain attribute-delimited
MV items. Same sort of process can be written to populate real XLS
workbooks, not CSV's that people open with Excel. See the
ExcelExport_README.txt for details.

This isn't open source, but it's free, and lots of enhancements are
possible. Enjoy.

Tony
http:// removethisNebula-RnD.com/freeware/

#5

Tom:

Why don't you post all of this on the "wiki"
(http://www.pickwiki.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SourceCode).

Bill

"Tom Phillips" <squash (AT) computer (DOT) org> wrote

Quote:

Some search, compare and editing programs are available at:
http://www.tom-phillips.info/

These are programs that I find useful in my daily program development
tasks.

They run in R83 mode under Universe, and of course, in all of the other
R83 flavors.

Specifically, I use qed instead of the Universe editor which I found was
typing intensive.
Besides - I missed the "p" commands.
It's very similar to the R83 line editor with a few enhancement.

I would appreciate any feedback.
Tom Phillips

#6

Tony:

Why don't you post your free stuff on the wiki? :-)

Bill

"Tony Gravagno" <g6q3x9lu53001 (AT) sneakemail (DOT) com.invalid> wrote

Quote:

I have also added one tool to my freeware page which includes a couple
MV utilities.

ExcelExport.exe will reach into a .XLS file and extract all worksheets
into unique CSV files. For those of you who ask "how do I get from
Excel data into my MV app, you can easily execute this from BASIC and
then read the results. I can provide a couple lines of code to
convert the quoted, comma-delimited CSV to plain attribute-delimited
MV items. Same sort of process can be written to populate real XLS
workbooks, not CSV's that people open with Excel. See the
ExcelExport_README.txt for details.

This isn't open source, but it's free, and lots of enhancements are
possible. Enjoy.

Tony
http:// removethisNebula-RnD.com/freeware/

#7

Bill H wrote:

Quote:

Tom:

Why don't you post all of this on the "wiki"
(http://www.pickwiki.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SourceCode).

How would one post a program there?

I don't see any links for that purpose;
in fact, I see this:
"This page is read-only"

--
frosty

#8

"Bill H" wrote:

Quote:

Tony:
Why don't you post your free stuff on the wiki? :-)
Bill

I have a lot more freedom to post, update, and re-organize code on my
own site. I also don't trust other sites to be around and available
but I'm fairly confident mine will last at least as long as I do.

Couple new additions just made today, have a gander.

T

#9

If I'm doing a prestore, especialy if it's self invoking, I tend to be
a bit more paranoid before setting it off. Same effect, though.
I would ...

ED File
9<Enter>
R/0403/0404<Enter>
FI<Enter>
..S3 BHM<Enter>
..X BHM<Enter>
..S4 BHM<Enter>

Just to make sure I didn't naff up the file completely or get in an
endless loop.

#10

John:

Click on the "Home" page for instructions. :-)

Bill

"frosty" <frostyj (AT) bogus (DOT) tld> wrote

Quote:

Bill H wrote:
Tom:

Why don't you post all of this on the "wiki"
(http://www.pickwiki.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SourceCode).

How would one post a program there?

I don't see any links for that purpose;
in fact, I see this:
"This page is read-only"

--
frosty