FAR Text Converter Plugin 1.00 Beta 4
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FAR Text Converter Plugin is a freeware product.
It may be freely distributed.

Text Converter is a plugin for FAR Manager.
FAR Manager can be downloaded at:
http://www.rarsoft.com

This Plugin recognizes the file formats of many common
word-processing programs. When these types of documents
are opened, Text Converter automatically converts them
to one of the export formats selected by user.

Examples of conversion:
HTML -> TXT
DOC -> TXT
XLS -> TXT
DOC -> HTML


Text Converter Plugin requires you have installed MS Office
Text Convertrs. Run MS Office Setup and click Add/Remove;
select the "Converters and Filters" option, and then select
the text converters you need.


INSTALLATION
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  - Create "TextConv" directory in "Far\Plugins\" directory.
  - Copy all files from this packet to created directory.
  - Restart FAR.

  If you use MS Office 2000 and plugin doesn't show text mode
  converters in "Select export format" list you can register
  TXTLYT.reg file. Change content of TXTLYT.reg if folder
  "Program Files" is resided in other disk than "C:\".


HOW TO USE
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There are three ways to open file in Text Converter:

1) Set cursor on the file and press Ctrl+PageDown.

2) Set cursor on the file and call Text Converter Plugin from
   Plugin commands menu by pressing F11. This method works even
   if you have plugin disabled in configuration.

3) Type in command line:
   TextConv:filename
   where filename is a name of the file which you want to open.
   This method works even if you have plugin disabled in
   configuration.

If you have collision with other plugins. you can disable Text
Converter Plugin in configuration dialog and enter to document
files via Plugin commands menu or via command line. 


NOTE: Text Converter Plugin writes internal temporary files
which have prefix to the system temp directory (usually specified
by TMP or TEMP environment variables). Since some converters
work incorrectly, these temporary files sometimes can not be
deleted by plugin and should be deleted by user manually after
closing Text Converter Plugin.



CONFIGURATION
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To open configuration window select the following items in FAR menu:
Options / Pligin configuration / Text Converter.
In this dialog you may change the following parameters:

Plugin Enabled       Enables / Disables plugin. It has no effect
                     if you use command line or plugin commands menu
                     for entering plugin.

Export file format   Export file format.
                     This parameter can be changed by
                     pressing "Select export format"
                     button and selecting required format.
 



  This distrubutive packet contains following files:

  readme.txt    - This file
  file_id.diz   - Short Description file
  History.txt   - History of the Text Converter
  TextConv.dll  - Text Converter Plugin DLL
  TConvEng.hlf  - Help file in English
  TConvRus.hlf  - Help file in Russian
  TConvEng.lng  - Plugin message strings in English
  TConvRus.lng  - Plugin message strings in Russian
  TXTLYT.reg    - Reg file for Text Mode Converters.


INTERNET
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http://www.7-zip.com
        
E-mail: support@7-zip.com


OTHER PRODUCTS
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  FAR Plugins
  ~~~~~~~~~~~
    Resource Browser: Extracting and updating resources in EXE and
                      DLL files. Supported resources:
                      Bitmap, Icon, Cursor, String, Menu,
                      Version_Info, Dialog, Group_Icon, Group_Cursor

    DocFile Browser:  Browsing, viewing and changing contents of the
                      compound files (OLE Starages and Streams):
                      MS Office documents and others.

                      

  Compression software
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    7-ZIP Archiver:   ZIP format compatibility.
                      Highest compression ratio in ZIP format.
                      Console 32 bit version for Windows 95/98/NT.
                      FAR Support.

    Document Press:   Compressing MS Office documents and other
                      compound files. After compression, files 
                      can be used without any decompression.

These and some other programs can be found at:

http://www.7-zip.com



---
  Igor Pavlov, the author of the Text Converter Plugin.



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