10-29-2012, 03:09 PM
A few years ago, I created a package of utility programs written in Delphi called a "Windows Toolkit".
To be brief, if you are familiar with the Windows utils called, "Find, More and Sort", they are tools that work in a Windows Command Processor window. There may be others but at the time I wrote them, there were only those three.
Anyway, I think that utilities like those are extremely useful because you can combine them with other utilities. For example, when you open a Windows Command Processor, you can enter a command like this:
DIR | SORT /5
This would produce a directory listing and "pipe" it into the SORT utility which would then sort that list beginning in column 5.
I know that the DIR command lets you sort by several different fields. But maybe you might like to sort it in some other way - for example in column 5.
These kind of utilities are called "Filters" because they enable you to pass data through them to some other filter. They use a concept called "piping" and the vertical bar "|" is called the "pipe" character and it has many uses. So do the "redirection" characters which are the "greater than" sign and the "less than sign".
Anyway I have written this package that has more than 100 new filters ascompared with the original version of Windows which has only three.
I would like to make this package available to all the members here at Rant Central.
It will only cost you $50 to subscribe to it.
I yam just kidding about the $50. It will actually only cost $40.
OK. OK. Squawker tells me I have to make it free. So, OK. It's free.
Fuck off back into your cage Squawker! You bitch! No treats for you tonight!
Anyway, I would just like to ask where would be the best place for me to post this please? Assuming of course, that you think it would be something people would be wiling to try.
If you would like to take a preliminary look at it first, that would be OK. I just need a few days to figure out how to package it now - because something has gone wrong with the Windows Help system - I mean the facility that lets people write Help files. I do not understand at all. But for some reason the system we used to use with XP no longer works with Windows 7. I don't know why.
To be brief, if you are familiar with the Windows utils called, "Find, More and Sort", they are tools that work in a Windows Command Processor window. There may be others but at the time I wrote them, there were only those three.
Anyway, I think that utilities like those are extremely useful because you can combine them with other utilities. For example, when you open a Windows Command Processor, you can enter a command like this:
DIR | SORT /5
This would produce a directory listing and "pipe" it into the SORT utility which would then sort that list beginning in column 5.
I know that the DIR command lets you sort by several different fields. But maybe you might like to sort it in some other way - for example in column 5.
These kind of utilities are called "Filters" because they enable you to pass data through them to some other filter. They use a concept called "piping" and the vertical bar "|" is called the "pipe" character and it has many uses. So do the "redirection" characters which are the "greater than" sign and the "less than sign".
Anyway I have written this package that has more than 100 new filters ascompared with the original version of Windows which has only three.
I would like to make this package available to all the members here at Rant Central.
It will only cost you $50 to subscribe to it.
I yam just kidding about the $50. It will actually only cost $40.
OK. OK. Squawker tells me I have to make it free. So, OK. It's free.
Fuck off back into your cage Squawker! You bitch! No treats for you tonight!
Anyway, I would just like to ask where would be the best place for me to post this please? Assuming of course, that you think it would be something people would be wiling to try.
If you would like to take a preliminary look at it first, that would be OK. I just need a few days to figure out how to package it now - because something has gone wrong with the Windows Help system - I mean the facility that lets people write Help files. I do not understand at all. But for some reason the system we used to use with XP no longer works with Windows 7. I don't know why.
(This post was last modified: 10-29-2012, 03:12 PM by AliShibaz.)
