LUSAS User Area
Links to Useful Utilities
File editor | File
difference tool | File transfer software
| File compression | Disk
space analyser | Unix to Windows file
conversion | Image editing software
| Screen recording software | ActiveX
Controls
Programmer's
File Editor
Programmer's File Editor is a text
editor for Windows that can handle large files (such as LUSAS
output files). Available for Windows 9x, Win 2000, NT
and XP. (Freeware)
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PrintFile
PrintFile is a freeware utility program
that will enable you to print files fast and easily. The
program recognizes plain text, PostScript, Encapsulated
PostScript (EPS) and binary formats. Selection of which
files to print can be made by the normal Windows file
selection dialog, or by Drag and Drop operations with one or
several files. The latter facilitates batch printing of
files. PrintFile can also act as a print spooler,
watching a specified directory for files. Whenever a
file appears in that directory it will automatically be
printed. Available for Windows 9x, 2000, NT and XP.
(Freeware).
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CygWin
UNIX tools for Windows
The Cygwin tools are ports of the
popular GNU development tools and utilities for Windows 9x,
2000, NT and XP. They function by using the Cygwin
library which provides a UNIX-like API on top of the Win32
API. Available for all versions of Windows since Windows
98. (Freeware)
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TextPad
TextPad is a powerful, general purpose
editor for plain text files. Easy to use and fully
Windows compliant. It is a powerful replacement for
Notepad, a tool for editing your web pages, or a programming
IDE. Available for Windows 9x, ME, 2000, NT 3.51 or
later and XP. Download the fully-featured trial version
for evaluation purposes. (Shareware)
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CSDiff
CSDiff is an advanced file difference
analysis tool for all versions of Windows. Use it to
analyse what has changed between two revisions of the same
file or folder. It may be used to analyse differences
between two similar LUSAS data/command files for instance (as
well as HTML documents and MS-Word documents).
(Freeware)
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WS_FTP32
This is a File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
client application for Windows Sockets and was designed to
take full advantage of the point and click capabilities of the
Windows environment. WS_FTP provides ease of use for the
beginner plus a full set of functions for the power user and
provides features like retention of site profiles and
multi-file transfer using standard windows methods.
WS_FTP32 is a 32 bit application for Windows NT, Windows
9x and Windows XP. (Shareware)
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WinZip
WinZip brings the convenience of Windows
to the use of Zip files and other compression formats.
Available for Windows 9x, NT,
2000 and XP. (Shareware)
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DISKdata
DISKdata is a compact explorer-like
application for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP that conveniently
analyses disk space utilisation. Selecting a disk volume
or folder displays a summary of its contents in report or
chart format. Statistics include file/folder actual
size, allocated size, storage efficiency, storage slice,
modification date, attributes and version information.
(30 Day Trial Version)
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Unix2Win32
32 bit program that converts Unix text
files to Windows text file format. The link will
direct you to a list of Windows utilities; download the file
Unix2Win32. (Freeware)
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PaintShop
Pro
Comprehensive image editing and file
conversion package. Can be used to capture LUSAS
screen images and convert to various industry standard bitmap
and vector formats. (Trial version)
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ScreenCorder
(AVI recorder)
ScreenCorder automates the tasks of
recording from the screen, creates AVI files, and adds mouse
clicks to the recorded file. It compresses video and sound,
and allows conversion of AVI files to animated GIF files for
use on web pages. Inexpensive to buy. (Download
demo version available)
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Lotus
ScreenCam
ScreenCam is Lotus Development's popular
PC screen recording application. It is an interactive
tool that takes advantage of multimedia for creating ad-hoc
and formal audio/visual presentations on the PC to capture
screen activity, cursor movements and sound into an integrated
movie that can be saved and distributed. The ScreenCam
player permits playback of these movies. Available for Windows
9x, NT, 2000 and XP. (Freeware)
Note: The Windows 95 version of the
ScreenCam player may not playback LUSAS Modeller results
contours correctly. The unified version of the ScreenCam
player (for use with Windows 95 and NT) should always be used
instead.
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Microsoft
ActiveX Controls
Some of the Visual Basic Scripts supplied with the FEA
software incorporate the Microsoft forms facility. To
enable the use of these scripts it may be necessary for the
Microsoft Active-X Controls to be installed. Note, that
in many instances where Microsoft products are being used
(particularly the Internet Explorer Web Browser), they will
already be available. (Freeware)
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