At 07:48 PM 1/2/05 -0000, Richard Winters wrote:

>I like VXI32, has some basic search/replace functions :
>http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.htm#download

also from the same author is a (win95/98/NT) program to generate random
text/binary strings...

http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/freeware.htm#rndfile

here's some of the available functions -- looks like I could have used
this for the "Alphabet 4" generation instead ;)

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Various options are available to describe the structure of each record. You
define for each record field (up to 512 possible in GUI version) its length
and one of the following types:
random numerals 0..9
random hexadecimal numerals 0..F
random capital letters A..Z
random small letters a..z
random letters A..Z, a..z
blanks
tabstops
fixed chars (i.e. same field contents in all records)
random chars from string
random chars from letters union user-defined chars
random binary chars #0..#31
random binary chars #0..#255
new: random dates