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From: Jim Sylva 
Yes. I agree with both of you. In my computer dream world TSE Pro exists
for Linux/Unix platforms. 
Jim Sylva
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Alain Nadeau wrote:
> At 09:03 15.10.97 -0400, you wrote:
> 
> Well not only did they not know C, but they obviously didn't know much UNIX
> either... I quite enjoy TSE (and I wouldn't want to start a war or
> anything), but any UNIX system has got lots of extremely powerful text
> manipulating tools (most painfully lacking under win-dos) which would have
> allowed for an easy solution to their problem without the whole to-and-fro.
> I usually do exactly the opposite: any major text manipulating job I need
> to do on my Dos-Win PC at work I take home to do in a few seconds on my
> Linux machine...
> 
> Best to all,
> 
> Alain.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >Just something a few of you might grin about, raised more than a few
> >eyebrows among those ignorant of TSE/Qedit & Semware.  I was
> >working at a site doing some grinding/boring file translation
> >programming when a problem came up in a 16MB data file on the
> >Unix system (was doing Unix-to-PC conversion programs).  The
> >programmers were aghast as they don't know C (weird, huh) and
> >they had no utilities on the system which would/could correct
> >some garbled characters within a single record.  For some reason
> >(can't recall what it was) they sure didn't want to delete & recreate
> >the offending record, so they came begging me to "write a program
> >to fix it".  
> >
> >While they were transferring the file from the Unix system to a PC
> >(at a blazing 9600 baud!) I took all of 2-3 minutes to look over one
> >of my programs and decide how to modify it to make the fix.  All
> >of a sudden a light bulb came on and I thought, "gee, I've got
> >TSE on a disk in my kit, why not see if I couldn't use it?!"  With
> >several people hovering around me, I loaded TSE with the offending
> >file (took a minute or so) in binary mode, put spaces over the
> >bad characters, then took another minute or so to save the huge
> >file.  After they transferred the file back to Unix and ran a report
> >to confirm the fix, I had more than a few questions about Semware,
> >TSE and Qedit (which they had on site but didn't know it).  Don't
> >know if I made any sales for Semware, but TSE (once again)
> >sure saved me some time and effort.
> >
> >Thanks much!!
> >
> >Andy
> >
> >
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> Dr. Alain Nadeau				alain.nadeau@unifr.ch
> Medieval Studies Institute		Fax: (+41) (26) 300 9700
> University of Fribourg
> CH-1700 Fribourg
> Switzerland
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