Useful Utilities

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This page contains some utility programs which WinCALIS authors, as well as educators and students in general, may find useful.

Some of the files included for download in the following list are in ZIP or self-extracting ZIP archive (*.EXE) format. To extract them, copy them to the directory specified, then execute them by double-clicking on them in your Win9x/NT Explorer or Win3.1 File Manager OR via Run in the Start menu.
If you need a utility to unzip the zip files, try PKZip for Windows, which is included below, or WinZip.

Word 97-98-2000 Import Converter -- Allows Mac users of Word 5.1 and 6.x to open Word 97, Word 98, and Word 2000 documents.
Word 97/2000 to Word 95/Word 6.x File Converter -- Allows Word 6.x and Word for Office 95 users to open Word 97 or Word 2000 documents.
Office 2000 HTML Filter 2.0 -- Removes MS Office-specific XML markup tags embedded in Office 2000 documents saved as HTML, thus producing smaller, cleaner, much more-readable HTML, at the price of losing round-trip conversion ability back to Word *.doc format. After installing, in Office applications, use by selecting File|Export To|Compact HTML.
Microsoft Office Converter Pack for Office 2000 Users (12,459KB)-- Installs rarer text converters and graphic (image) filters not included with Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. Text converters for Word 2000 include: Borland dBASE II, III, III+, and IV, Lotus AmiPro 3.x for Windows, Microsoft FoxPro 2.6, Microsoft Windows Write 3.x. Microsoft Word 3.x - 6.0 for DOS, Microsoft Works 3.0 for Windows, Revisable-Form-Text Document Content Architecture (RFT-DCA), WordPerfect 4.0 for DOS, WordStar 3.3 - 7.0 for DOS and WordStar 1.0 - 2.0 for Windows. Graphics filters for Word 2000, Excel 2000, and PowerPoint 2000 include: AutoCAD, Micrografx Designer/Draw, and Targa.
Microsoft Powerpoint Viewer
Windows Commander (16 bit)
Windows Commander (32 bit)
Lotus ScreenCam Player for Windows 9x and NT 4.0 (will not install on Windows 2000)
GraphX TIFF file viewer (Windows 3.1 and above)
ACDSee Image viewer Good for TIFFs and much more. Fast loading! (shareware, reg. fee $30)
Ghostview: A Postscript and PDF Viewer
Adobe Acrobat Reader: View, navigate, search, and print Portable Document Format (*.PDF) files, such as WinCALIS and UniEdit documentation files.

AR40ENG.EXE (4/16/99 5328K)

AR16E301.EXE (6/17/97 3825K)

PKZip for Windows Version: The classic file compression and expansion utility, by the inventor of the ZIP standard, the late Phil Katz.

PK263W16.EXE 681K)

PK270WSP.EXE (ca. 700K)

WinZip: Another fine shareware Windows utility to zip and unzip files and create self-extracting archives.
MacSee: Allows PC's to read and write Macintosh diskettes.

MACSEE.ZIP (11/20/96 51K)

MPack and MunPack ver. 1.5 : DOS Utilities for encoding and decoding binary files in MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) format mail messages.

MPACK.ZIP (2/13/95 46K)

MPACK documentation text file

GoldWave: Sophisticated shareware audio editor. Record, edit, or convert many types of audio files.

Goldwave

Microsoft NetMeeting: Shareware video conference utility which includes such features as Chat, Whiteboard, and Collaboration (where participants may view or take control of another participant's application).
Split: Divides a file, at specified points, into smaller files. Useful for dividing very large Unicode text files of more than 6000 lines (the maximum number of lines allowed in a WinCALIS/UniEdit window) into smaller chunks to edit, then save and recombine with the DOS COPY /B command. Includes manual "SPLIT.DOC."

SPLIT60I.ZIP (10/9/95 29K)

WS_FTP95 LE WS_FTP File Transfer Protocol Program for Windows 9x/NT/2K, Limited Edition (free for academic use).

WS_FTP

Please see also our Supplementary Files page.