PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
From: Crystal Software Australia www.crystalsoftware.com.au
Contact: Simon Carter, +61-3 9888-3104, mail@crystalsoftware.com.au
Date: 3rd April 2000
BIG SITES? BIG FILES? UPDATE USING TEXTPIPE AUTOMATION
Melbourne, Australia - April 3, 2000 - Crystal Software Corporation releases
TextPipe 4.6 for Windows 95/98/2000/NT, its enhanced text transformation
workbench. TextPipe performs multiple text operations on files larger than 2 GB - in
memory and in one pass. New features include support for extracting data from
complex web docs, e-mail and other unstructured sources, support for
user-defined filters written in JScript, VBScript, PerlScript etc, support for
an embeddable Engine and improved debugging support.
Kirk Pinneo of SportMart.ca burns kiosk CDs after replacing 24
phrases on his 2100 page web site. "It's fantastic", says Kirk,
"we couldn't survive without it. We schedule it to run each night."
Search and replace is TextPipe's most powerful feature, with pattern matching,
multi-line matching, sounds-like and binary file support. TextPipe
is a low cost alternative to complicated and time-consuming hand-coded
solutions. Developers can rapidly design and test transformations for even the
most complex collections of irregular data. Mike Pullen
of the Gutenburg Project receives hundreds of scanned and typed manuscripts. He
uses TextPipe to clean up the most common grammatical errors and standardize
punctuation and formatting. David Udow of ArtStar.com
uses TextPipe to convert Unix log files to PC format. End-of-line (EOL)
conversion between Unix, PC, Mac and mainframe formats is a very important and
often-used feature. Integration with JustSoft
Corporation's award-winning JustData delivers seamless transformation of
irregular text files into all ODBC and SQL-92 compliant databases. The embeddable TextPipe Engine
extends handling to live data feeds.
AVAILABILITY
TextPipe can be purchased for $70 (US) from Crystal Software's web site, and a
free 30-day evaluation edition is also available for download.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
TextPipe requires Windows 95/98/2000/NT and 16MB of memory. The download file is
1.5 MB. Installation requires 1.7 MB disk space.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Founded in 1990, Crystal Software has its headquarters in Melbourne,
Australia. The company sells directly to VARs and companies over the Internet
and via fax and mail order. Crystal Software's technology is also licensed to
strategic partners within Australia. Its charter is to provide IT professionals
with time saving data analysis tools. It has developed eight commercial
software titles. For more information visit www.crystalsoftware.com.au
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Editors: Review copies are available on request. Evaluation copies can be
downloaded from http://www.crystalsoftware.com.au/textpipepro.exe
Screen shot: http://www.crystalsoftware.com.au/images/textpipe_screen.gif
JustSoft Corporation - www.justsoft.com.au
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