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

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