Dear Crystal Software Group Member,

TextPipe 6.8 has been released - and it's our best ever!
Don't miss out on this new version!

****************************************************************

Contents:

0) Stop Press! Special 20% Discount Offer!

1) TextPipe 6.8 New Features

2) Crystal Software Newsletter

3) TextPipe Discussion Forum

4) TIP: Working with Mainframe Reports

5) WANTED: Professional Information Consultants to Resell TextPipe

6) Download TextPipe 6.8

7) Upgrades

****************************************************************
Please forward this newsletter to anyone you think may be
interested. Thank you. Information on how to SUBSCRIBE /
UNSUBSCRIBE is at the bottom.
****************************************************************

STOP PRESS! SPECIAL 20% DISCOUNT OFFER!

Purchase TextPipe Pro, Standard or Web before Wed 5th May, 2004!

Coupon code: --> TPNEW682 <--
(Enter this on the credit card page).

****************************************************************

TEXTPIPE 6.8 NEW FEATURES

New and improved filters:
* Added new EasyPatterns for [ CSVfield ] and [ TABfield ].
These make it easy to work with Comma-delimited and Tab-
delimited data.

Read more about EasyPatterns:
http://www.crystalsoftware.com.au/easypatterns.html

* Added Expand packed decimal and Expand zoned decimal filters.
* New Restrict to Byte Range filter - useful for expanding
mainframe packed and zoned decimal fields.
* New Delete Byte Range filter.
* XML filter now has better matching of double and single quoted
attributes. These filters now handle embedded double single or
double quotes, quotes escaped with backslash, and embedded new
lines.
* Added Unicode functions
- Remove BOM (Byte Order Mark)
- Swap UTF-16 word order
- Swap UTF-32 word order
- Make Little Endian
- Make Big Endian
* Added 144 Unicode conversion functions to convert to and from:

ARMSCII-8 ASCII BIG5 BIG5HKSCS
C99 CES-BIG5 CES-GBK CNS-11643-1
CNS-11643-15 CNS-11643-2 CNS-11643-3 CNS-11643-4
CNS-11643-5 CNS-11643-6 CNS-11643-7 CNS-11643-INV
CP1046 CP1124 CP1125 CP1129
CP1133 CP1161 CP1162 CP1163
CP1250 CP1251 CP1252 CP1253
CP1254 CP1255 CP1256 CP1257
CP1258 CP437 CP737 CP775
CP850 CP852 CP853 CP855
CP856 CP857 CP858 CP860
CP861 CP862 CP863 CP864
CP865 CP866 CP869 CP874
CP922 CP932 CP949 CP950
DEC-Hanyu DEC-Kanji EUC-CN EUC-jisx0213
EUC-JP EUC-KR EUC-TW GB18030
GB2312 GBK GEORGIAN-ACADEMY GEORGIAN-PS
HP-ROMAN8 HZ ISO-2022-CN ISO-2022-CN-EXT
ISO-2022-JP ISO-2022-JP1 ISO-2022-JP2 ISO-2022-JP3
ISO-2022-KR ISO646-CN ISO-646-JP ISO-8859-1
ISO-8859-10 ISO-8859-13 ISO-8859-14 ISO-8859-15
ISO-8859-16 ISO-8859-2 ISO-8859-3 ISO-8859-4
ISO-8859-5 ISO-8859-6 ISO-8859-7 ISO-8859-8
ISO-8859-9 ISO-IR-165 JAVA JIS_X0201
JIS_X0208 JIS_X0212 JOHAB Johab-Hangul
KOI8-R KOI8-RU KOI8-T KOI8-U
KSC-5601 MacArabic MacCentralEurope MacCroatian
MacCyrillic MacGreek MacHebrew MacIceland
MacRoman MacRomania MacThai MacTurkish
MacUkraine MULELAO-1 NEXTSTEP RISCOS1
SHIFT-JISX0213 SJIS TCVN TDS565
TIS-620 UCS-2 UCS-2BE UCS-2-Internal
UCS-2LE UCS-2-Swapped UCS-4 UCS-4BE
UCS-4-Internal UCS-4LE UCS-4-Swapped UTF-16
UTF-16BE UTF-16LE UTF-32 UTF-32BE
UTF-32LE UTF-7 UTF-8 VISCII

Ease of use enhancements:
* New context menu item to insert control characters like tabs and
form feeds.
* New context menu item to show a hex dump of the selected text.
* Added Cut/Copy/Paste to file grid context menu.
* Added Tile function to Window menu.

Scripting and TextPipe Engine:
* The TextPipe Engine DLL now has a COM interface identical to
TextPipe's, but removes most GUI operations for incredible
speed.
* Added logWarning to scripting model.
* Added alert() function to the internal TextPipe object of the
scripting filter, so JScript functions can easily display debug
dialogs.

Read more:
http://www.crystalsoftware.com.au/textpipe/whatsnew.html

****************************************************************

CRYSTAL SOFTWARE NEWSLETTER

If you haven't yet signed up for our newsletter, you just missed
a fantastic issue. You can sign up for it by sending a blank
email to
mailto:crystalsoftware-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

****************************************************************

TEXTPIPE DISCUSSION FORUM

Did you know about our discussion forums? Logon online at
http://www.crystalsoftware.com.au/forums

****************************************************************

TIP: WORKING WITH MAINFRAME REPORTS

The new filters in TextPipe 6.8 make working with mainframe
packed and zoned decimal easy! We have put together a white
paper describing techniques to handle all the different kinds of
mainframe data you might encounter.

Download it here:
http://www.crystalsoftware.com.au/docs

****************************************************************

PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION CONSULTANTS WANTED TO RESELL TEXTPIPE

If you have clients who may benefit from TextPipe, we would love
to hear from you. We have a dedicated and friendly support staff,
highly reputable products and a generous commission structure.

If interested in receiving more information, please see:
http://www.crystalsoftware.com.au/resellers

We also have an affiliate scheme if you would like to sell
TextPipe from your website - see the link above.

****************************************************************

DOWNLOAD TEXTPIPE 6.8

You can download the new evaluation version from:
http://www.crystalsoftware.com.au/freetrials.html

****************************************************************

UPGRADES

To download the upgrade, login to the Secure Area:
http://www.crystalsoftware.com.au/secure

If you have lost your login password, please go to:
http://www.crystalsoftware.com.au/password.html


****************************************************************

TextPipe also comes in a home user's Web Edition, an intermediate
Standard Edition, a consultant's Run Time Edition (with editing
disabled), and an application programmer's TextPipe Engine.

Also:
DataPipe ($590) - search and replace inside databases
WordPipe (SPECIAL! $699!) - search and replace Word documents
ExcelPipe (SPECIAL! $299!) - search and replace Excel spreadsheets

To purchase now, please visit:
http://www.crystalsoftware.com.au/buy

We know you'll enjoy the new TextPipe - it's our best version yet!

Please tell your friends and colleagues about it!

We're very proud that TextPipe won the 2003 International
SIA "Best Application" award! See
http://www.crystalsoftware.com.au/press/20030719.html


Thank you for supporting Crystal Software!

Crystal Software Customer Service Team
http://www.crystalsoftware.com.au


.......................................................................
Crystal Software respects your online time and Internet privacy. If
you would prefer not to receive information or special offers from us,
please reply to this email to unsubscribe.

We sent you this email because you evaluated TextPipe Pro.
You can change your group preferences at
http://groups.yahoo.com
.......................................................................