I am doing a TextPad presentation this Friday
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 11:42 pm
Got several Developers convinced to use TextPad to write COBOL. Apparently several of the Business Analysts are also interested. Today, one of the Managers, who has been tossing a lot of "Can it do this?" and "Can it do that?" questions my way conceded defeat and said "You won't ever hear me say this again, but you are right. TextPad is a far better tool than <fill in the blank> or <fill in the other blank>".
I don't know to how large of an audience I will be presenting, but I have been sifting through and throwing things at TextPad to see what it can handle--also to myself to see if I can quickly find the answer.
I pulled up a 374 MB file, across from a network server, with Outlook, and Word, and Excel, and half a dozen other programs running. Obviously took a few minutes, but it opened. Saved it to my harddrive so I could manipulate it. About 4.5 million records. Stripped off trailing spaces. Saved. Removed all but the last 8 characters. Saved. It threw an out of memory error when I tried to Sort, but after shutting down other programs, I sorted 4.5 million records, then sorted and eliminated dups.
Excel could not handle that many records, and I could not find another Text Editor that could sort it.
I think it's a lock. Just a matter of how many licenses we will buy.
I don't know to how large of an audience I will be presenting, but I have been sifting through and throwing things at TextPad to see what it can handle--also to myself to see if I can quickly find the answer.
I pulled up a 374 MB file, across from a network server, with Outlook, and Word, and Excel, and half a dozen other programs running. Obviously took a few minutes, but it opened. Saved it to my harddrive so I could manipulate it. About 4.5 million records. Stripped off trailing spaces. Saved. Removed all but the last 8 characters. Saved. It threw an out of memory error when I tried to Sort, but after shutting down other programs, I sorted 4.5 million records, then sorted and eliminated dups.
Excel could not handle that many records, and I could not find another Text Editor that could sort it.
I think it's a lock. Just a matter of how many licenses we will buy.