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68040
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on: February 02, 2023, 14:51
Having fiddled around with it for some, I can attest that SuperReplace has some powerful JuJu to offer. This nifty little tool is like Linux's awk for vintage Macs, only it has a GUI, allows for easy storage of all kinds of setups in different filters and it support drag'n drop (ha, try that one with a Penguin!) for multiple files. Ah yeah, did I mention it also permits for auto-adjustment of file attributes? Well, now I did.  |
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #1 on: February 03, 2023, 14:53
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Too bad nobody else seems to be interested in talking productivity tools for vintage MacOS. 
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wove
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1024 MB Posts: 1363
Reply #2 on: February 03, 2023, 19:47
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That is a weakness and frustration of SIG type web forums. They tend to devolve into a big stream concerning the platform rather than discussions involving the power and potential of the platform itself. Woodworking forums quickly become all about the perfect woodshop. A woodworker goes there looking for inspiration for projects, and finds themselves with nothing but "What is the best saw?; what is the best router, what is the best dust collector?" Rather than being inspiration it becomes a trivia platform. I think photo forums settled that best, when after endless discussion about, "What is the best camera?", so smart person noted the best camera is the one you have in your pocket. So maybe it follows that the best OS is the one you have installed on your computer. It does follow though when you do discover a new and powerful tool for your computer or OS. It would be most effective and helpful, to go a bit into what challenge you faced and how specifically the tool aided in meeting the challenge.
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #3 on: February 03, 2023, 20:29
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"The best camera is the one you've got in your pocket when stuff happens" is one of my fav quotes. I have this humongous issue with Unicode text files: They are standard nowadays and I used to import them with MS-Office, until I had to retire that behemoth because starting it up made everything else unstable on my system. I still got SaintEdit, which can import Unicode text files rather nicely, but(!) it utterly fails at any special chars like German Umlauts or French or Spanish characters. All it does with them is turn those into gibberish. The same goes for special explamation marks. Basically anything that's not in the lawer 127 range is a complete miss. Now I just didn't feel like correcting that by hand any more and thus wanted an automatic translation program, capable of handling files "drag'n drop" style. SuperReplace is is it and best, it can handle multiple setups and you don't have to switch between them manually, as you just drop the file on the custom translator required. And while checking out this nifty tool I found that it also supports macros and other extensions which makes it as powerful as the much hailed "awk" of the Unix/Linux realm. Its basically an interpreter allowing you to develop an entire programming syntax that can then be "compiled" in a single push. It even comes with an HTML compiler, allowing you create entire webpages out of simple text files. I'll take that and change it to auto-magically translate RTF files to HTML. This way I can use any Rich Text capable vintage Mac program to author my own web pages and then don't have to do any manual fiddling to turn that into HTML code. I think this is enormous for a tool of that age, which runs stable on 68k w/o consuming too many CPU cycles whilst doing its job.
Last Edit: February 04, 2023, 01:05 by 68040
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cballero
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1024 MB Posts: 1179 System 7, today and forever
Reply #4 on: February 03, 2023, 22:11
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Sorry! I had seen the post, reviewed the tool at the MG and thought, 'Wow, cool! I'll definitely keep it in mind when I need to change some file attributes!'I tend to use Greg's Browser to select a file and change it's type all in the window while using it as a neat file explorer alternative to the finder's windows. Of course, my go to was PopUp Folder in Mac OS 7.6.1 and FinderPop on PPC Macs, but the 68k Mac OS 8 has neither contextual menu to play with so I had to improvise with my fav find and file browser tools (I guess I also like using TaskMenuBar as an alternative to the PPC-only A-Dock as well.. sigh)
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #5 on: February 04, 2023, 01:09
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Using it to just change file attribs would be waste of your time and the tool's potential. There are better apps for that. SuperReplace allows you to interpret a file's content according to custom filters that can be set up on a case by case basis. Its the most powerful customizable file interpreter I've found thus far for vintage MacOS.
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB  Posts: 2023
Reply #6 on: February 04, 2023, 08:19
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Don't say nobody here's interested in productivity tools, please. It's not true. This is one of the places where we discuss actual usage of System 7 instead of hoarding color iBooks. We've been sharing tips & utilities for years here now and it was only last week that I've added a quick tip on how to increase download speeds on 68k. I for one just don't know the utility, didn't have the time to play with it yet and the example given about changing Linux files to Mac OS isn't something that is compelling for me. (as I'm not a Linux user) From what I understand, SuperReplace basically does a big pre-defined search & replace operation ("filtering") by stripping a document of e.g. a certain character, replacing it with another?
Last Edit: February 04, 2023, 08:21 by Bolkonskij
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #7 on: February 04, 2023, 14:07
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Simple "Rsearch & replace" ist just 1 aspect of this tool. By utilizing Macros, BOF/EOF Injects, Pattern Matching, Variables and Comments you can create a translator for almost any scriptable language you like. Using it to convert Unicode to MacOS is only scratching the surface here and I most definitely intend to dig deeper into it. Ha, talking about language: I could use this baby to build meself a slang translator for me novels! 2nd Thought: Forget about just slang. I'll use it to translate the entire manuscript, German->English including slang, proverbs, grammar correction and all. And when I do it via RTF then I won't even lose any of the formatting info like it happens when I am restricted to text only with online translation services. I AM A GENIUS! 
Last Edit: February 04, 2023, 14:57 by 68040
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cballero
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1024 MB Posts: 1179 System 7, today and forever
Reply #8 on: February 04, 2023, 15:41
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And a mad genius at that, 68040!  So I'm hoping that you're tinkering with all of those neat 68k video tools with one of the aims being of producing small demos showcasing truly magical and crazy-cool 68k tools like SuperReplace in action!! One thing is to describe what a tool can do and another is to actually see it in action, so to speak. I think this is where we have so many budding potential programmers, but they simply lack seeing programming being done live (think of those Linda video courses for Adobe and such) Somehow those kind of videos work so much better than even the 'Bible' Mac how-to books at simply showing how to do certain tasks within a pro program like Adobe Illustrator and even Aldus Freehand (lol, Freehand's a real oldie but goodie from the vector-design Mac collection of tools right there!)
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2023
Reply #9 on: February 06, 2023, 15:09
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Yes, my thumbs up for 68040 for actually using our classic Mac software productively! I haven't had the time to play around with SuperReplace this weekend. But I've thus far done all my search and replace using BBedit's inbuilt function. This is by far inferior to the features in SuperReplace but for the few cases where I need it, it gets the job done :-)
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #10 on: February 06, 2023, 19:18
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I already downloaded a complete file with all German words. I'll use that to assemble a first rough translation engine. Then I spice it up with slang expressions and proverbs. It won't be perfect but it'll save me 98% of typing. And I would have to proof read any other translation anyway.
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Neal_SE30
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256 MB Posts: 401 System 7 Newcomer!
Reply #11 on: February 06, 2023, 21:26
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What is this software for?
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cballero
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1024 MB Posts: 1179 System 7, today and forever
Reply #12 on: February 07, 2023, 01:12
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If I got the jist of it correctly, it allow you to do some really nifty text-replacing within documents, but it seems to do much more than just that, Neal (stuff like advanced filtering and drag-and-drop stuff, but 68040 is the real master in the bunch! )
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #13 on: February 20, 2023, 19:04
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It is basically awk for MacOS 68k, only with a GUI and an editor that does take some getting used to (still way better than vi). The power is in the macros and the different filter settings that you can activate by just dragging and dropping a file to be translated onto them (not even awk has that!). This way you can automate the most complex of transformation tasks and indeed the tool comes with a predefined HTML engine that was used to set up the very manual of SuperReplace.
Last Edit: February 20, 2023, 19:08 by 68040
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