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We STRONGLY recommend the TextPipe Tutorial for first time users - just select Tutorial in the Help menu. You can also press F1 for help at any time. *** PLEAS E DO THE TUTORIAL! *** ?To add a filter, double click it in the 'All Available Filters' view, or drag i t to the 'My Filter List' tree. ?The TextPipe Filter Wizard makes designing filters easy. Find it under the Tool s menu ?Search and Replace filters are found in the Filters\Replace Menu. ?To convert EBCDIC data files to ASCII, see the Mainframe documentation ?To data mine reports or websites, see our tutorial at http://www.datamystic.com /docs ?Restriction Filters limit where a search and replace is performed. Simply drag and drop a Replace filter inside a Restriction Filter. Restrictions include line and column ranges, CSV and Tab fields, HTML and XML tags and attributes. ?Right-click on edit fields for powerful menus for adding special characters, in serting patterns and macros, saving and loading text and more. ?To convert end-of-line (EOL) characters between Unix, DOS, Macintosh or Amiga, use the Convert Menu\End Of Line Characters filter. ?You can add files and folders to be processed using drag-and-drop from Windows Explorer. ?Move filters using drag-and-drop. Drag onto a node's text to create a subfilter , drag between nodes to add a filter above or below. ?To test your filter list, enter text in the Trial Run area and click the Trial Run button. Your modified text is shown on the right. You can perform partial Tr ial Runs by right-clicking filters in the filter list. ?For help with automated scheduling and command like invocation, see Tools Menu\ Command Line Wizard. ?Automatically copy a file to the Trial Run area by choosing Tools Menu\Put Samp le in Trial Input, or by right clicking on the file in the file list. ?To add line numbers, use the Add Menu\Line numbers filter. ?To add a file header, use the Add Menu\Header filter. ?Use macros to insert global variables and environment variables like @ENV_HOMEP ATH ?You can use environment variables in filenames like %TEMP%\myfile.txt ?You can copy a filter quickly by selecting it and clicking the [x2] button. ?You can disable all prompting by selecting Tools Menu\Disable Prompting. ?In the Edit Menu\Preferences dialog, you can select a sound to be played when a filter finishes running, as well as the editor to use when a file has no defaul t association. ?TextPipe comes with numerous examples, including filters for HTML, programming, electronic text processing, conversion, email, fun, system administration and m ore. ?The macros @inputFilename, @clipboard, @fullInputFilename are expanded at filte r runtime to include dynamic text. Use them in the Add Header, Footer, Left and Right Margin filters (see the right-click menus) ?TextPipe can automatically determine if a file is binary before processing it. The sample size can be adjusted to ensure that the statistical sampling works fo r your binary files. ?TextPipe generates a log file of all operations, stored in the same folder as T extPipe.exe. ?You can write your own filters in VBScript or JScript using the Special Menu\Sc ript filter. ?To expand or reduce tabs, use the Convert\Tabs filters. ?If you want to replace individual characters (with either new characters or str ings), try using a map. They can look for a letter and replace with a new letter or string. ?To copy text from a file to the clipboard (eg for an email signature), make a f ilter file input and clipboard output, and specify the file. You might want to m ake a shortcut for it with a hot key (like Ctrl+Alt+S). ?To update the search engine keywords in your web site, try using the HTML\updat

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