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[Susan Bugher]

http://www.infinitespectra.com/freeware/index.html
http://www.infinitespectra.com/freeware/dazycalc.zip

Thank you all. That's DazyWeb Laboratories new web site. When I
looked in January the app wasn't listed. Glad to know it is now. I'll
update the ACF pages.

Susan
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[Morten Skarstad]

Why Tea skrev:

This is the first time I heard about this claim.

Which claim? That I have found OOo useful in cases where MSO was not?
That's not a claim, that's a fact. Besides, with two software suites of
such size and complexity of MSO and OOo it is only natural that they
_both_ have single features and properties that individually are
superior to their competing counterparts.

Can you provide an example or two?

Sure thing.

1) Regular expressions. I have not found this or anything similar to
this in MSO. And believe me, I have searched. Maybe this can be emulated
with macros in MSO, but firing up Calc and putting regexps straight into
the search-phrase is much easier.

2) Resurrecting corrupted MSO documents. When feeding MSO a corrupted
document it usually chokes on it, turns blue, flips backwards and dies.
OOo, on the other hand, may be able to open the document and then save
it back in a form that is edible to MSO. One or two elements (such as a
table or a picture) may be beyond repair, but that's still way better
than loosing an entire large document. Oh, and guess which program
usually corrupts the documents in the first place? ;o)

3) File format support. Even if you don't give a damn about "open" or
"compatible", I can still give you three letters you should care about:
P, D and F.

 

[Why Tea]

Which claim? That I have found OOo useful in cases where MSO was not?

That's not a claim, that's a fact. Besides, with two software suites of
such size and complexity of MSO and OOo it is only natural that they
_both_ have single features and properties that individually are
superior to their competing counterparts.

Boy, you sound agitated. I came from the Unix world, where Framemaker
(the make of the 3 characters - P, D and F) is still being used quite
frequently. I am quite what you said is right. But in our environment,
due to the incompatibilty issues between MSO and other "open" suites,
none of my collegues even attempts to use open offices.

 

[Al Klein]

2) Resurrecting corrupted MSO documents. When feeding MSO a corrupted
document it usually chokes on it, turns blue, flips backwards and dies.
OOo, on the other hand, may be able to open the document and then save
it back in a form that is edible to MSO. One or two elements (such as a
table or a picture) may be beyond repair, but that's still way better
than loosing an entire large document. Oh, and guess which program
usually corrupts the documents in the first place? ;o)

Reminds me of earlier version of RoboHelp that used MSWord as their
editor. Ever have 2 copies of exactly the same file spec saved in the
same directory, neither of which had any of the data you thought you'd
saved? I know, you CAN'T have 2 entries for the same file in the same
directory. The operating system won't do it. And the tooth fairy
lives next door.

 

[Al Klein]

On 29 Mar 2006 14:13:19 -0800, (e-mail address removed) wrote:

says....."Buy now". Doesn't look like freeware.

<http://www.mirkes.de/en/freeware/tinyhex.php>. Freeware, John, and
you can copy the ASCII side and paste it wherever you like. It's just
a hex editor, but that's all you really need for the job.

 

[Roger Johansson]

http://www.infinitespectra.com/freeware/index.html
Dazycalc is a futuristic looking calculator, at first sight.

It has a lot of modules which I spent an hour trying out.

Most of the modules are working well, and are valuable for their
purpose.
A few crashed the program, some behaved in an irritating way.

Among the modules is a very interesting editor, for rtf and txt.
The periodic table works very well.

Many technical and electronic math help programs.
Graphing calculators, 2D and 3D.

"Expression solver with programable scripting, hex-dec-bin ops, 2D,3D
equation graphing, loan calc, electronic formula functions, statistics
with regression analysis, geometry calc, advanced text editor, image
editor/viewer, complex math, matrix math, linear equation solver, unit
conversion, chartmaker/ graph plotter, periodic table, equation
illustrator, hex viewer, schematic editor."

It is freeware according to its own help text.

Many other technical freeware programs suitable for electronics and
science in general, math equations and geometry formulas and
calculators, at:
http://www.infinitespectra.com/freeware/index.html

The scientific calculator MA 2003 is also a very capable program.
It has the irritating feature that it is stuck to the upper left corner
on screen, in my win98se system.
As many of these programs they have some silly mistake in an otherwise
very good program.

The biggest mistake in Dazycalc is the visual design.
I wish the modules were available as separate programs.

I trid to move the Dazycalc folder and run it from somewhere else, it
works without a problem. MA2003 runs from any folder. So these programs
are movable once unpacked/installed.

 

[John Fitzsimons]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:01:02 +1000, John Fitzsimons

<http://www.mirkes.de/en/freeware/tinyhex.php>. Freeware, John, and
you can copy the ASCII side and paste it wherever you like. It's just
a hex editor, but that's all you really need for the job.

Thanks Al, I had come across that before. Thanks for the reminder
though. The reason for my post was that I wanted to warn people about
a possible non-freeware recommendation.

 

[meow2222]

Dazycalc is a futuristic looking calculator, at first sight.

It has a lot of modules which I spent an hour trying out.

Most of the modules are working well, and are valuable for their
purpose.
A few crashed the program, some behaved in an irritating way.

Among the modules is a very interesting editor, for rtf and txt.
The periodic table works very well.

Many technical and electronic math help programs.
Graphing calculators, 2D and 3D.

"Expression solver with programable scripting, hex-dec-bin ops, 2D,3D
equation graphing, loan calc, electronic formula functions, statistics
with regression analysis, geometry calc, advanced text editor, image
editor/viewer, complex math, matrix math, linear equation solver, unit
conversion, chartmaker/ graph plotter, periodic table, equation
illustrator, hex viewer, schematic editor."

It is freeware according to its own help text.

Many other technical freeware programs suitable for electronics and
science in general, math equations and geometry formulas and
calculators, at:
http://www.infinitespectra.com/freeware/index.html

The scientific calculator MA 2003 is also a very capable program.
It has the irritating feature that it is stuck to the upper left corner
on screen, in my win98se system.
As many of these programs they have some silly mistake in an otherwise
very good program.

The biggest mistake in Dazycalc is the visual design.
I wish the modules were available as separate programs.

I trid to move the Dazycalc folder and run it from somewhere else, it
works without a problem. MA2003 runs from any folder. So these programs
are movable once unpacked/installed.

The visual design seems to be a theme of Dazy labs software, and maybe
it was considered a move forward from square grey windows years ago.
Its harmless anyway

The only issue I find with dazycalc is that alt tabbing from a dazycalc
module then back will return you to the main window, not the module.
Just have to remember to press twice. Other thing is you must use
taskmanager to close it. Also, not sure, but ISTR it sizing wrong on
480x640, which might affect a few people still, though not many.

So a couple of odd minor bugs, but overall a great tool, and one of my
recommended.


NT

 

[Franklin]

Il Tue, 28 Mar 2006 23:00:15 +0200, El Bandolero ha scritto:


I forgot METAPAD! excellent
it can show web links that are clickable, too, so I use it as a
sort of favorites editor

Seconded. Very nice. Lots of options and small executable.

 

[Roger Johansson]

I forgot METAPAD! excellent
it can show web links that are clickable, too, so I use it as a sort of
favorites editor

There is a special trick you can do with metapad.
Make a copy of metapad.exe and rename it mitypad.exe
Use a hex editor inside it to change all occurences of metapad to
mitypad.

When you use this program, mitypad, it will set up its settings in the
registry, in a new place in registry, under mitypad.

This means that you can have two or more versions of metapad, for
different purposes, with different settings, colors, sizes, fonts,
position, etc..

You can use metapad in log mode, start a text file with
..LOG
on the first line and metapad will treat it as a logfile and add time
and date every time you add something.