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Not that it's any argument for or against including certain functionality in the editor, but many of the "standard" unix utilities can be found in Windows binary form. I've seen a number Gnu Windows ports, including the file utils, find utils, text utils, etc. Just look around for them. They're all command line, but that's integral to their power. It's kind of nice to be able to do things like tail -f logfile.log | grep -v '^$' | cut -c 25-36 | tr -d ' ' | sort -nrk 4 | uniq >> capture.file when needed :-) Now that I think about it, simply providing a way to pipe stdin/stdout in and out of PSPad would allow most external utilities to interact with the editor, without bloating it unnecessarily. Kind of like using the old DOS utility LIST to capture stdout : dir /s *.c | list /s -- PSPad freeware editor http://www.pspad.com
