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ASCII Tools is a free development tool for Macintosh.
ASCII (Pronounced ASKEEEE) stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
ASCII is a code for representing characters as numbers so that they can be stored in a computers memory. For example, uppercase "A"
would be stored as 65. Before ASCII, most computers had their own codes for storing letters. This made it difficult to exhange data
between computers. For example, computer number one represents the letter A as 42 and computer number two represents the letter Q
as 42, then when a text file was transferred from computer number one to computer number two, all of the A's would be replaced with Q's.
ASCII was proposed and accepted as a standard code for representing characters, which allowed computers to transfer text with each other.
This made email possible.
As developers, we
often need to find out the ASCII value of a character, or vice versa, and we
were tired of searching for one of the many ASCII character tables that are
in books or on print outs. We decided that it would be quicker and easier to
have a small utility to turn to for this information.
ASCII Tools contains four windows. The main window contains an ASCII
character table with values in decimal and hexadecimal, as well as quick
conversion utilities for ASCII value to character, and ASCII character to
value.
We found that if we were working on something that required us to turn to
this utility many times, it would be easier if we had the utilities in
global windows so that we would not have to keep switching between
applications.
By selecting "Show Global Windows" from the "Windows" menu, you can have
access to all of the features of ASCII tools from within your current
application. No more switching back and forth.
- Simple, easy to use interface.
- ASCII number to character converter.
- Character to ASCII number converter.
- ASCII character, hexadecimal value, and decimal value table.
- Global floating windows for easy access while in other applications.
ASCII Tools is available for the following platforms:
- Macintosh 68k
- Macintosh FAT
- Macintosh PowerPC
- Macintosh Carbon for MacOS X
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- ASCII Tools for Macintosh requires MacOS 7.6 or later.
- ASCII Tools Carbon requires MacOS 8.6 or later.
- ASCII Tools Carbon requires CarbonLib 1.2.5 or later. CarbonLib is free and can be downloaded from Apple's Support Downloads.
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Please feel free to send us feedback on ASCII Tools. Send all feedback to feedback@trinfinitysoftware.com.
ASCII Tools is made with REALbasic, a state of the art Macintosh IDE (Integrated Development Environment) which
allows simultaneous Macintosh and Windows development using the same source code. Another amazing, time-saving
feature is REALbasic's drag-n-drop user interface builder, which creates almost all of the interface code,
saving us many hours of labor. These features dramatically decrease the development time of ASCII Tools, which
allows us to release updates to you much more quickly.
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| Product |
Size |
Download Via |
Download Via |
| ASCII Tools 68k |
660K |
HTTP |
FTP |
| ASCII Tools FAT |
1.2M |
HTTP |
FTP |
| ASCII Tools PPC |
763K |
HTTP |
FTP |
| ASCII Tools Carbon (MacOS X) |
911K |
HTTP |
FTP |
Which one do I need?
ASCII Tools is freeware. You do not have to pay for it. Feel free to pass it on to anyone you wish.
You are not allowed to charge for it, or use it commercially without written permission from the author.
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