Application:  Manipulator

Version: 1.0

Author:  Gregory Archer

Contact/support: app_arent@yahoo.com

Program Status:  Shareware

Price: $55.00

Distribution Status:  No limitation on distribution, no time limit

Restrictions on the trial version are as follows:
- No text copying/cutting, or file saving is allowed.


Purpose:  To easily manipulate from bytes to megabytes of text.
          Text can be moved, added, replaced, deleted, and/or saved to a database. 

Description:
Manipulator allows you to move, add, replace, and/or delete text in a file.  Re-format text copied from web pages, so that when the copied text is pasted into a word processor, the lines are not truncated haphazardly.  Turn delimited text into columns of information, such as you'd see in a database or a spreadsheet.  Delimited text can also be turned into separate lines of information.  A single column of data can be turned into a row, and then saved in a table.  Columnized information, and the details entered to manipulate the original text, can be saved to a database.  This is great for cases where delimited text files must be repeatedly processed (e.g.  weekly, or monthly).

You may write and execute SQL queries to create a table and/or query a table in Manipulator's Access 97 database, and save SQL queries for re-use.  Then, from within Manipulator, you can open, edit, sort, filter, and delete a table, or save it as another name.  You can also print (manipulated) text, or data from tables.

Manipulator Features:
- The ability to process from small (bytes) to LARGE amounts (megabytes) of text
- Write and execute SQL queries to create a table and/or query a table in Manipulator's Access 97 database, and save SQL queries for re-use.
- Open, edit, sort, filter, and delete a table, or save it as another name.
- On the Text/Lines tab, re-format text that was copied from Internet pages with the click of a button.
- Print (manipulated) text, or data from tables.
- Also on the Text/Lines tab, click the Create Line button to turn a column of data into a row.  The row can then be saved into a table. 
- On the Format Text tab, delimited text can be turned into new lines, or new columns, at each delimiter.
- On the Columize Text tab, enter details which will be used to arranged text into columns of information.
- On the Settings tab, all details entered can be saved to a database, and retrieved the next time you want to perform the same type of text manipulation.
- The Save to Database tab allows you to save columized text to Manipulator's database, or another Microsoft Access database you specify.

Requirements:  
- Java (TM)2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE), downloadable from: http://java.sun.com/downloads.html
- HD space: 1.2 times the size of the file to be processed; e.g. a 10MB file requires 12MB of free disk space DURING processing.  Space will be freed after processing.
- Windows 95/98/Me/2000/NT/XP system

Installation:  Run setup.exe

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NOTE: If, during installation, you get a message telling you that a file is already present
      in a folder (e.g. the system folder) simply click ignore/yes, and continue with the 
      installation.  The message means that the file is probably a shared file that's already
      on your system.
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Un-installation:  Select the Add/Remove Programs icon in Control Panel

Author:  Gregory Archer

Contact/feedback: app_arent@yahoo.com

NOTE: The contact/support e-mail address is my (almost) live help-desk system!  Please use it if necessary.