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Terrific, 4wd.

Hope this helps others as well.

Skwire, unless someone has more to add, another DONE.

Thanks 4wd.  Excellent approach.

Ath, while Swiss File Knife does a lot, I don't think it can do what's being asked.  But thanks for your suggestion.

Wondering if anyone knows of a present way, or perhaps it can be made.

I have a folder of text files, each in their own subfolders, and I want to place the following at the very bottom of each of the text files:

endsas;

Not necessary, but nice to put a blank line above, separating from rest of text.

Thanks much, folks.

Nicholas Kormanik

The program I liked best was...

http://www.nodesoft.com/searchandreplace

Did a super job.

Thanks for that suggestion!

So, Skwire, unless anyone has something else to add, this thread is done.

Nice job copying all those options.  Command line is fine.  Whatever gets the mission accomplished.  Thanks a lot.

Two programs so far do allow for TAB.  So, all this help has been well worth it.

Installed without any problem.  Thanks.

As anticipated, in the programs tried so far, can't figure out how to put in a TAB character.  They seem to be geared for regular text.

Still with good ol' XP Pro.

I guess at some point I'll have to move to Windows 8, huh.

Goodness, quite the assortment to choose from.  Thanks for all your help!

Surely such utility programs exist, so I am mostly asking for your suggestions.

In a set of folders are text files.  I need to search for UNDERLINE characters, and change each to TAB characters.

Ideally I'd like the operation to be recursive, so that I can use the top containing folder, and all folders within will be drilled into, finding the text files, and changing the UNDERLINE to TAB.

Additionally, the program must allow me to put in TAB.  Maybe ASCII 9?  Could be an issue.

Thanks much.

Nicholas Kormanik

I concur.  Just thought I'd throw it to you folks.

Skwire, done with this one.

Good point to check on.  Indeed, x86.  SAS says that even if you have an x64 system, to still use x86 Java and JVM.

As I may have mentioned above, SAS installed fine on a second hard disk in same system via dual-boot.  So problem is not the hardware.  Nor basic drivers present.  As those remain constant.

I've been wondering about the virtual route as well, but haven't any experience with such yet.

If you or anyone has a lead where to begin, I'll give it a try.

VMware Workstation??  VMwareThinApp??

Was worth the try.  Thanks.  But no luck.  Still the same ol' error message when SAS starts:

"Failed to attach to Java during SAS startup."

Some mysterious bugger must be getting in the way, tripping Java as it starts to load JVM.  No idea what it could be.

No JVM.dll included in known .dlls listed in registry.  So the JVM.dll that is supposed to be found and used by SAS is the one being pointed to.

MilesAhead, the url you provide doesn't come up.

I'm familiar with the regular Windows search PATH.  Is there a different one for DLLs that I can check and edit?

By "digging" I mean doing a number of Google searches.  I've followed basically every suggestion that seemed reasonable.  But problem remains.

The crazy thing is, the solution is probably a super simple one.

But that's only in retrospect, after you find it.

2 gb on the system giving issues.  SAS installed and works fine on a 1.5 gb and 4 gb system.

1.4 gb free memory.

On JVM.DLLs flying around...  That's why I brought up this matter to begin with.  Surprisingly there are 79 separate instances of that bugger.  Many programs have included it in their installations.  Tucked away in their own subdirectories, at least.

Main symptom is when I start the SAS install program, intro window comes up for about 15 seconds, then disappears, without even saying goodbye.  (Normal behavior would be to proceed on to next setup screen.)

Digging, what's going on in those 15 seconds, among other things, SAS looks for the appropriate JRE and JVM on the system.

Using a program transfer program (PCMover) I was able to transfer fully installed SAS from one of the working machines to problem machine, thus bypassing install.

Then SAS appears to run fine on problem machine...  EXCEPT.  When SAS needs to use a java component, error message comes up:  "Cannot load Java Virtual Machine."

Your suggested JavaRa looks promising.  Thanks.

On all my machines I'm still running Windows XP Pro.

For the most part XP has worked fine.  And there's that old saying, if it ain't broke, why fix it.

However.....

Yep, installed and uninstalled Java (v6, as that's what the program requires) many times now.  The program (SAS statistics) installs and runs fine on two other computers, and this one as well on a second hard drive using dual-boot.

Just came across what might be a clue:

"JVM may fail if a DLL or some other process has pinned a chunk of memory in such a manner that the JVM cannot reserve the contiguous amount of memory requested."

So, there may be some particular process going on that is putting a fly into the ointment.

I've done a "safe mode" boot several times to create a cleaner environment for installing/loading.  But no luck.

Glad I asked.  Thanks to all for the advice.

As I mentioned at the outset, SOMETHING is preventing the normal loading of Java Virtual Machine in a program I'm trying to run.  I've tried everything I can think of.

Surely the programs to do this exist, so this post is more of a request for suggestions.

JVM.dll is not loading for a particular program.  I'm wondering if that program is barking up the wrong tree.  So I'd like to rename all JVM.dll files to JVM.dll (bak) -- except, that is, for the JVM.dll that the program SHOULD be trying to load.

Suggestions appreciated.

Nicholas Kormanik

I'm not going to ask for the following, but it logically seems a next step, just for some future possibility:

In Append, a drop-down menu of, say, the past few files which have been appended to.

Right now, Cliptrap remembers the last file appended to.  Which is fantastic.

But if the past five files could be remembered, and offered in a drop-down menu when the Append button is pressed, when user is cruising around doing research, and comes across something to add to the previous file, or four files ago, easy to click on that file in the drop-down menu, and add to that one.

In this way, several sets of research can be easily added to concurrently.

As I say, not asking for this.  Just an idea.

As Cliptrap presently stands seems to perfectly meet my needs.

 

Append works great, Skwire.  Huge and really useful addition to your Cliptrap program.  Thanks very much!

I realized the problem with overwrite....  Must include the extension with the name of the file.  Sometimes (not sure exactly when or why) all that's necessary to save a file is just the filename, and, say, .txt, is automatically added.  Well, if only filename is given, Cliptrap will overwrite the saved file that includes the extension.

So, when saving a file from Cliptrap, very important to type in the filename + the extension.  Then if such file already exists, Cliptrap will give a warning about overwriting.

Same result on a different computer.  No warning at all.  Simply overwrote.

Very strange you get a warning.  I tried twice and didn't get one.

As said, ClipTrap simply silently overwrote the original, and replaced.  Poof.

How about the "Append to file" possibility?

Further request:

Upon save, if file exists, offer to append or replace, with default being to append.

As of right now ClipTrap overwrites an existing file without any notice.  Poof.  All the previous clippings saved vanish and are substituted with a new set.  User ought to at least get a warning.

By the way, with append (to existing file), I can see the usefulness of including your "Enable timestamp tokens," which I've not thought about using before.