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|  Common13 1.3   (Downloads: 278) common utility classes that work under Swing Java 1.3+ common utility classes that work under Swing Java 1.3+
 Includes:
 
 CMPAboutJBox:    a proper about box for Swing apps/JApplets that provides useful information.
 HybridJ :        converts Swing Applet into an Application...
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|  Holiday Calculatior 4.7   (Downloads: 727) Calculate when 66  holidays occur in any given year. Calculates when various holidays occur in any given year BC or AD.
 Designed to be cannibalised to include the calculation routines in your
 own programs.  You might use it to prepare paper calenders well in
 advance or electronic calendars.  You might also use the logic in computer
 programs that compute payrolls, bus schedules, or club meetings.  You
 might use it in writing novels or researching historical events.  It can
 als...
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|  Honk 1.5   (Downloads: 244) Plays one or more of the Standard Windows sounds or wav files. Plays one or more of the Standard Windows sounds, triggered
 purely from the command line.
 
 use:
 
 honk
 - Plays the default system sound.
 
 honk  SystemStart SystemHand SystemQuestion
 - Plays the given list of standard system sounds (usually just one).
 - they are case-insensitive (you can get the case wrong and it will still work).
 
 Possible sound names are listed in the registry...
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|  Untouch 2.4   (Downloads: 436) Reverts files dates back if the files have not really changed. Documentation on the original student project outline
 mindprod.com/projects/untouchproj.html
 This explains how it works and some of its uses.
 
 Untouch supports the following command line switches which appear
 before the directories.
 -c or -clear = clear history first and take current file times as the new revert-to point.
 -f or -force = revert files back to previous dates whether they have changed or not.
 -h or -help =...
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|  ISBN 2.5   (Downloads: 339) Tidies, interconverts and Validates ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 book numbers. Helps you proofread, interconvert, validate and tidy ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 (International Standard Book Number) references in your HTML or other documentation.  It validates the checkdigit, inserts dashes, interconverts ISBN-10 and ISBN-13. It displays them both with and without dashes....
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|  Screws 1.3   (Downloads: 241) CMP Screws and Screwdrivers draws eight types of screw heads. CMP Screws and Screwdrivers draws eight types of screw
 heads. It is a teaching example for how to use Java Canvas,
 fillRect, fillOval, fillPoly and AffineTransform to draw.
 
 Java source is included for you to cannibalise.
 
 It draws 8 types of screw heads.
 
 To run as an application, type:
 
 java -jar C:\com\mindprod\screws\screws.jar
 
 adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is....
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|  Tabin 5.3   (Downloads: 250) Converts spaces to tabs in an ASCII text file. Converts spaces to tabs in an ASCII text file
 
 Usage:
 TABIN.exe  Myfile.txt
 
 Assumes tab stops are 8 columns apart. Don't use it on word
 processor files.  C source included. Copyrighted by Canadian
 Mind Products.  May be freely distributed and used for any
 purpose except military. It has been rewritten in C from
 Pascal for extra speed.  Users of previous versions should
 take care to delete the old TABIN.COM...
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|  LEDataStream 1.8   (Downloads: 245) Little-endian replacements for DataInputStream, DataOutputStream and RandomAcces Little-endian replacements for DataInputStream, DataOutputStream and RandomAccessFile. They work just like DataInputStream, DataOutputStream and RandomAccessFile except they work with little-endian binary data. Normally Java binary I/O is done with big-endian data, with the most significant byte of an integer or float first. Intel and Windows 95 tend to work with little endian data in native files. LEDataInputStream, LEDataOutputstream and LERandomAccessFile will le...
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|  BOOTSave 2.8   (Downloads: 281) BootSave saves/restores the master boot sector BootSave saves/restores the master boot sector on the
 hard disk. Suite of three utilities BootSave, BootRest and
 BootChk. Protects against damage to the partition table or
 boot sector done by rogue programs, viruses or accidents
 with tools like Norton NU.
 
 The BootSave suite will work under DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows
 95/98/ME, OS/2, but not NT, Windows 2000, XP, Vista or Windows 7.
 These OSes block low level disk I/O as...
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|  Ini 1.4   (Downloads: 500) Windows *.ini file verifier, tidier and sorter. Windows *.ini file verifier, tidier and sorter.
 
 Tidies and sorts windows *.ini files, ones that look like this:
 [section]
 ; a comment
 item=value;
 
 To use:
 
 java.exe -jar ini.jar  C:\somedir\somefile.ini UTF-8
 
 Where UTF-8 in the encoding.
 Opera uses UTF-8. You can leave it to the default for most others.
 The original is named somefile.ini.old when you are done.
 
 Don't run ini ...
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|  Amper 1.9   (Downloads: 413) Safely converts ampersands to !amp; entities In the following, pretend ! is an ampersand. PAD files don't let me give literal examples. Amper converts ! to !amp; in HTML files and back, but does not convert it when the ! is already in an entity e.g. !lt; !thetasym; !eacute;
 
 The main use for this is to pass HTMLValidator verification of your HTML, which is very picky about !, especially inside URLs.
 
 As a side effect, it also ensures all your comment delimiters balance.
 
 It ...
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|  Primes 1.4   (Downloads: 477) calculates the prime numbers 1..N, tells you if N is prime etc. calculates the prime numbers 1..N, tells you if N is prime etc.
 
 Prints tables of primes.
 
 Computes the prime just below or above N.
 
 It is useful in computing optimal Hashtable sizes.
 
 Java source included....
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|  Submitter 16.4   (Downloads: 1070) Submitter will submit your PAD *.xml program descriptor file to 199 PADsites. Submitter will submit your PAD *.xml program descriptor file to 199 PADsites.
 Unlike other submission programs, it submits only to PADSites
 that welcome automated submissions.  Compose your PAD *.xml file using a
 program like PADGen, then upload it you your website.  Then enter the URL
 of your website directory where you upload pads and the name of the pad
 itself e.g.  hypotheticalprogram.xml, then hit SUBMIT.  It also has a
 ...
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|  Encodings 1.6   (Downloads: 248) Applet to list all supported encodings (character sets) supported by Java. Applet to list all supported encodings (character sets)
 supported by your browser/java.
 
 To install, Extract the zip download with WinZip,
 (or similar unzip utility) into
 any directory you please, often C:\ -- ticking off the (user
 folder names) option. To run as an application, type:
 
 java -jar C:\com\mindprod\encodings\encodings.jar
 
 adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is....
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|  RadixSort 1.6   (Downloads: 213) RadixSort is a fast internal sort written in Java that mimics a card sorter. RadixSort is a fast internal sort written in Java that
 mimics a card sorter. Source provided. It is faster than
 both HeapSort and QuickSort. It sorts using a comparision
 routine you provide to compare two elements to be sorted
 plus a method to extract individual bytes from the keys to
 be sorted. The time to sort each item  unlike most sorts,
 does not increase with larger sorts.  It depends rather on
 the key length.
 
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|  Dedup 1.5   (Downloads: 230) Java command line utility to removes duplicate lines from text files. DeDup is a Java command-line utilty for removing duplicate
 lines in text files.
 
 The dedup process compares adjacent lines only. It does not
 sort first. The comparison is case sensitive. It removes
 adjacent indentical lines. It replaces the original file, so
 do a backup first.  You can dedup 1 to N files in one
 execution, just put their names on the command line.
 
 DeDup deletes blank lines from both the beginning...
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|  Boyer 1.5   (Downloads: 255) Fast string search (indexOf) using the Boyer-Moore algorithm. Fast string search (indexOf) using the Boyer-Moore
 algorithm. Incorporate this class into your own Java
 programs to rapidly search strings.
 
 use:
 import com.mindprod.Boyer.Boyer;
 ...
 Boyer b = new Boyer("dogcatwombat");
 int where = b.indexOf("cat");
 or
 int where = Boyer.indexOf("dogcatwombat","cat");
 
 Boyer-Moore is about twice as fast as String.indexOf wh...
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