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0.50 Extended Characters . . Link BabelMap (Andrew West) (Freeware) . Windows 95; 98; NT4; ME; 2000; XP notes .
0.50 Extended Characters . . Link Character Clips Gulf Coastal Software (Freeware) .   notes .
0.50 Extended Characters PW07 . Link Extended Character Map (v 1.41) AriTech Development Indonesia (Sony Arianto Kurniawan) (Freeware) LFW (v 1.41) (n.i.) Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; (XP) notes .
0.50 Extended Characters . . Link Keyman Tavultesoft (Freeware) (free for personal use) .   notes .
0.50 Extended Characters . . Link MapOfChars (Daniel Hoppe) (Freeware) .   notes .
0.50 Extended Characters: Form Filler PW07 . Link AllChars (Jeroen Laarhoven (original author); Joachim Breuer) (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) (n.i.) Windows 95; 98; NT4; ME; 2000; XP notes .
0.50 Font Creator: True Type . . Link DoubleType e.e d3si9n (e.e) (Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL) . Windows 95; 98; NT; 2000; XP notes .
0.50 Font Manager . . Link Cfont Pro Veign LLC (Chris Hanscom) (Donationware) (free) .   notes .
0.50 Font Manager . . Link Characteristica (- Simtel Legacy) (Freeware) .   notes .
0.50 Font Manager . . Link Font Frenzy Sound Doctrine Ministries (Freeware) (n.i.)   notes .
0.50 Font Manager . . Link Font Xplorer Moon Software (Ahto Tanner) (Freeware) was $ware .   notes .
0.50 Font Manager . . Link FontExplorer X Linotype GmbH (Betaware) (free) .   notes .
0.50 Font Manager . . Link FontPage Bluefive software (David De Groot) (Freeware) .   notes .
0.50 Font Manager . $W xxx FontViewer (fviewer.zip) PC Mag was (Registerware) (free) .   notes .
0.50 Font Manager PW07 . Link The Font Thing (Sue Fisher) (Betaware) (Freeware) . Windows 95; 98; NT notes .
0.50 Font Manager: Title Maker PW06 . Link X-Fonter (v 4.6) BlackSun Software (Liteware) (free for personal use) LFW (v 4.6) . Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP notes .
0.50 Font Tool . . Link AMP Font Viewer AMPsoft (Alberto Martinez Perez) (Donationware) (free) .   notes .
0.50 Font Tool . . Link Arjan Mel's Font Viewer (v 1.99) (Arjan Mel) (Freeware) LFW (v 1.99) .   notes .
0.50 Font Tool . . Link Bitmap Font Writer (Stefan Pettersson) (Donationware) (free) .   notes .
0.50 Font Tool . . Link Font Matcher (Javier Guerrero García) (Freeware) .   notes .
0.50 Font Tool . . Link Font properties extension (ttfext.exe) Microsoft MS .   notes .
0.50 Font Tool . . Link FontForge (George Williams and others) (Freeware) (open source: BSD license) . Windows 95; 98; NT; 2000; XP notes .
0.50 Font Tool . . Link FontList (Raymond Mercier) (Freeware) .   notes .
0.50 Font Tool . . Link Fontlister (v 2.0) (Peter Theill) (Freeware) LFW (v 2.0) . .. notes .
0.50 Font Tool . . Link FontLoader Moon Software (Ahto Tanner) (Freeware) installation password: FreeStuffIsCool! .   notes .
0.50 Font Tool . . Link FontRenamer A + M Neuber GbR (Alexander Neuber) (Freeware) (n.i.) (n.r.)   notes .
0.50 Font Tool . . Link FontView MeeSoft (Michael Vinther) (Freeware) (n.i.)   notes .
0.50 Font Tool . . Link RS-FontChart sizeable (v 2.1) (Rainald Schwenke) (Freeware) LFW (v 2.1) . Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000 notes .
0.50 Text Tool: Color Gradients . .   Texefex BlackSun Software (Liteware) (free) LFW (v 2.3) .   notes .
0.50 Text Tool: Title Maker . . Link AddBanner (v 0.99) (Thomas Jansen) (Freeware) LFW (v 0.99) . Windows 95; NT notes .
0.50 Text Tool: Title Maker PW03 . Link DDTitle (v 5.10) SoftLab NSK (Freeware) LFW (v 5.10) last available freeware version . Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP notes .
0.50 Text Tool: Title Maker PW05 . Link Font Magic Font Magic (Matt Cawley) (Freeware) . Windows 95; 98; NT4; ME; 2000; XP notes .
0.50 Text Tool: Title Maker . . Link HieroGlyph Library SAB Software (or) Ancients UK (Freeware) registration code: BAD-513A .   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link ACF Notes Ur I.T. Mate Group (Steven Burn) (Freeware) .   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link ACF Pad (was) Legacy Pad Lite (Phillip Sassano (dos-man)) (Freeware) .   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link AEdit - Free Word AXAR Team (Freeware) (n.i.) (n.r.)   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link BabelPad (Andrew West) (Freeware) .   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link BDV Notepad (Denis Balykin) (Freeware) (n.i.)   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link CNotePad Cetus Software (Freeware) LFW (1996) .   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link CopyWriter (Laurenz van Gaalen) (Freeware) .   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link DocPad Gammadyne Corporation (Freeware) .   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link ED (Charles Sandmann) (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) .   notes c
1.01 Editor . . Link EditMan (Johan Daniel Meiring) (Freeware) .   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link Editor2 (Craig Wilkie) (Freeware) .   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link Editor² (Editor2) (was) 2xEditor (Nikos Bozinis) (Donationware) (free) .   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link EDXOR (Dariusz Stanislawek) (Freeware) . Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP; Windows Server 2003 notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link EmEditor Free (EmEditor) (v 6.00.4) EmuraSoft (Liteware) (free) LFW (v 6.00.4) . Windows "all" (Vista) notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link Emojic Emogic Software (Donationware) (free) .   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link Golden Pen MidWest Studio (Vitaly Nevzorov) (Freeware) .   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link GridinSoft Notepad Lite GridinSoft (Crippleware) (free) note: the Home and Professional versions are $ware .   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link Haxial TextEdit Haxial Software Pty Ltd (Freeware) .   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link IntelliEdit FlashPeak Inc. (Freeware) .   notes .
1.01 Editor . .   Kankowski Edit (Peter Kankowski) (Freeware) (open source) .   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link kPad (Konstantin Boukreev) (Betaware) (Registerwareware) (free) demo = beta (n.i.)   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link MDINotepad (Tomas Kostiainen) (Freeware) .   notes .
1.01 Editor PW07 . Link MetaPad (Alexander Davidson) (Donationware) (free) (n.i.) Windows 95; 98; NT; XP notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link NoteMaid (v 1.55) Kent's Internet (Kent H.) (Freeware) LFW (v 1.55) . Windows 95; NT notes .
1.01 Editor . .   Notepad And 1/2 Design Vortex (Donationware) (free) .   notes .
1.01 Editor . .   Notepad FTP (Ken Anderson) (Freeware) .   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link NotePad SX SX Software Inc (Donationware) (free) .   notes .
1.01 Editor PW00 . Link Notepad+ RogSoft (Rogier Meurs) (Freeware) .   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link Notepad2 (Florian Balmer) (Requestware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL) (n.i.) Windows "all" (95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP; Vista) notes c
1.01 Editor PW07 . Link NoteTab Light Fookes Software (Eric G.V. Fookes) (Liteware) (free) (n.r.) Windows 95; 98; NT4; ME; 2000; XP; Vista notes c
1.01 Editor . . Link NoteTab Light (no install version) Fookes Software (Eric G.V. Fookes) (Liteware) (free) v 4.9.2.2 (n.i.) (n.r.)   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link NoteXpad (Ryan Lederman) (Freeware) (open source) .   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link nPad2 (nPad) (Nikola Dachev) (Donationware) (free) (n.i.) (n.r.)   notes .
1.01 Editor . .   Orient (J. Saportas) (Donationware) (free) .   notes .
1.01 Editor PW06 . Link Programmer's File Editor (PFE) (v 1.01) (Alan Phillips) (Freeware) LFW (v 1.01) . Windows 3x; 95; 98; NT; 2000 notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link Prolix Kobayashi Software (Eric Schreiber) (Freeware) (free for personal use) .   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link Q10 (Joaquín Bernal) (Donationware) (free) (n.i.) (n.r.)   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link Quick Editor (Hutch) (Freeware) (n.i.)   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link Shalom Txt (v 1.2) (Finn Ekberg Christiansen ) (Freeware) LFW (v 1.2) . Windows 95; 98; NT4; ME; 2000 notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link Side by Side Galaxy Web Design (Freeware) .   notes .
1.01 Editor PW01 . Link Stratuspad (v 1.1) (Brandon Fridley) (Freeware) LFW (v 1.1) . Windows 95 notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link subpad (Xtort) (Freeware) (n.i.) (n.r.)   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link Syn Text Editor (Stefan Ascher) (Donationware) (free) (open source: Mozilla Public License) . Windows 95; 98; NT; 2000; XP notes c
1.01 Editor . .   Tagana Notes Tagana Innovations (Liteware) (free) .   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link TextMorph (Chris Long) (Freeware) .   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link TextShield Fusion (was) TextShield 2000 Onis Software (Jeremi Onis) (Freeware) .   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link TheGun (Hutch) (Freeware) (n.i.) (n.r.)   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link Thinner (Michael Foley) (Freeware) .   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link Thomson-Davis Editor (TDE) (Jason Hood) (Freeware) (public domain) .   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link TopGun (Hutch) (Freeware) (n.i.) (n.r.)   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link TxEdit (v 3.2) (Gregory Braun) (Freeware) LFW (v 3.2) . Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link TxtEdit (v 3.2) (Luzius Schneider) (Freeware) LFW (v 3.2) . Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link UniRed (Yury Finkel) (Freeware) .   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link VDE (Eric Meyer) (Liteware) (free) CLI   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link Win32Pad (Gennady Feldman) (Donationware) (free) (n.i.) (n.r.)   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link WinPedit Goldshell Digital Media Inc. (Freeware) .   notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link Winsyntax (v 2.0) Arisesoft (Freeware) LFW (v 2.0) . Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000 notes .
1.01 Editor . . Link Xint (Xtort) (Freeware) (open source) .   notes .
1.01 Editor PW00 .   XpertWord (v 3.10) . (Freeware) LFW (v 3.10) . Windows "all" notes .
1.01 Editor: Code . . Link AkelPad (Instructor) (Freeware) (open source: BSD) . Windows 95; 98; NT; 2000; XP notes .
1.01 Editor: Code . . Link Barry's emacs (Barry A. Scott) (Freeware) .   notes .
1.01 Editor: Code . . Link ClearEdit (Maël Hörz) (Freeware) .   notes .
1.01 Editor: Code . . Link Code-Genie (v 3.0) DolfySoft (Adolf Szabo) (Freeware) LFW (v 3.0) cgenie30.ZIP 568 KB (581942 bytes) (n.i.) Windows 95; 98; 2000; XP notes .
1.01 Editor: Code . . Link CodePad ShiCola (Freeware) .   notes .
1.01 Editor: Code PW06 . Link ConText (Eden Kirin (original author); David Hadley) (Donationware) (free) . Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP notes c
1.01 Editor: Code . . Link CPad (v 0.26A) (Mathias Wennergren) (Freeware) LFW (v 0.26A) . Windows 95; 98; NT4; ME; 2000; XP notes .
1.01 Editor: Code . . Link Cream (Wolfgang Hommel) (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) . Windows 95; 98; NT; 2000; XP notes .
1.01 Editor: Code PW05 . Link Crimson Editor (Ingyu Kang) (Freeware) (n.i.) Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP notes c
1.01 Editor: Code . . Link EditPad Classic (Jan Goyvaerts) (Requestware) (free) .   notes .
1.01 Editor: Code PW07 . Link EditPad Lite Just Great Software Co. Ltd. (Jan Goyvaerts) (Liteware) (free for personal use/ some non-commercial uses) . Windows 98; NT4; ME; 2000; XP; Vista notes c
1.01 Editor: Code . . Link emacs Free Software Foundation (Freeware) .   notes c
1.01 Editor: Code . . Link Emerald Editor (Crimson Editor) Emerald Editor Team (Ingyu Kang (original author); project team) (Betaware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL) (n.i.)   notes .
1.01 Editor: Code . . Link eWriter (Gene Fowler) (Freeware) (n.i.) (n.r.)   notes .
1.01 Editor: Code . . Link GNU Emacs (Richard M. Stallman: original author) (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) .   notes .
1.01 Editor: Code PW03 . Link Jedit (Slava Pestov) (Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL) . Windows "all" notes c
1.01 Editor: Code . . Link Jext (Romain GUY) (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) .   notes .
1.01 Editor: Code . . Link Kudaz (Suzuki) (Freeware) .   notes .
1.01 Editor: Code . . Link LopeEdit LopeSoft (Liteware) (free) .   notes .
1.01 Editor: Code PW07 . Link Notepad++ (Don HO) (Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL) (n.i.) Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP notes c
1.01 Editor: Code . . Link NotesPad (v.8.0) (Skip Bremer) (Freeware) LFW (v.8.0) . .. notes .
1.01 Editor: Code . . Link PlainEdit Gaijin (Donationware) (free) (n.i.) (n.r.)   notes .
1.01 Editor: Code . . Link Proton (Ulli Meybohm) (Freeware) (free for personal use/ some non-commercial uses) .   notes .
1.01 Editor: Code PW07 . Link PSPad (Jan Fiala) (Donationware) (free) (n.i.) (n.r.) Windows 98; NT4; ME; 2000; XP notes c
1.01 Editor: Code PW06 . Link SciTE (Neil Hodgson) (Freeware) (open source: similar to Python License) (n.i.) Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP notes c
1.01 Editor: Code . . Link sUSHi HushPage (Hermann Hehn) (Freeware) .   notes .
1.01 Editor: Code PW07 . Link TED Notepad (Juraj Simlovic) (Donationware) (free) (n.i.) (n.r.) Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP; Vista notes .
1.01 Editor: Code PW03 . Link vim Vim (Bram Moolenaar) (Requestware) (free) (open source: CharityWare (a GPL-compatible license)) . Windows 3x; 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP notes c
1.01 Editor: Code . . Link WinVi (Raphael Molle) (Freeware) .   notes .
1.01 Editor: Specialized . . Link Bifocal Notepad (v 1.0) (Dennis Vanderspek) (Freeware) LFW (v 1.0) (n.i.) Windows "all" notes .
1.01 Editor: Specialized . . Link Elfima Notepad Elfima (Freeware) .   notes .
1.01 Editor: Specialized . . Link Medit Synametrics Technologies (Freeware) .   notes .
1.01 Editor: Specialized . . Link RemotePad Hamster Republic (Freeware) (n.i.) (n.r.)   notes .
1.01 Editor: Specialized . . Link Scintilla (- project team) (Freeware) (open source: similar to Python License) . Windows 95; 98; NT; 2000; XP notes .
1.01 Editor: Specialized . . Link Tkoutline (Brian Theado) (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) . Windows 95; 98; NT; 2000; XP notes .
1.01 Editor: Specialized PW07 . Link yWriter Spacejock Software (Simon Haynes) (Freeware) . Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP; Vista notes c
1.01 Editor: Word Processor PW07 . Link AbiWord SourceGear Corporation (Dom Lachowicz) (Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL) . Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP; Vista notes .
1.01 Editor: Word Processor . . Link Adept Write (v 1.0) Penguins Online Software (Amol Lodha) (Freeware) LFW (v 1.0) . Windows 95; 98; ME notes .
1.01 Editor: Word Processor PW07 . Link Atlantis Nova Rising Sun Solutions (Liteware) (free) . Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP; Vista notes .
1.01 Editor: Word Processor PW07 . Link Crypt Edit (v 4.10) PolySoft Solutions (Ulyanov Ilya Andreevich) (Freeware) LFW (v 4.10) discontinued . Windows 95; 98; NT; 2000 notes .
1.01 Editor: Word Processor . . Link CWordPad Cetus Software (Freeware) LFW (1999) .   notes .
1.01 Editor: Word Processor . . Link Delphad HushPage (Hermann Hehn) (Freeware) .   notes .
1.01 Editor: Word Processor . . Link Desktop Writer (v 2.2) DC Software (Daniel Carey) (Freeware) LFW (v 2.2) for novices and children . .. notes .
1.01 Editor: Word Processor . . Link FreeText Kudlian Soft (Freeware) .   notes .
1.01 Editor: Word Processor . . Link Hieroglyph (Michael Morozov) (Freeware) (n.i.)   notes .
1.01 Editor: Word Processor . . Link Jarte Carolina Road Software (Liteware) (free) .   notes .
1.01 Editor: Word Processor . . Link JWPce (Glenn Rosenthal) (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) .   notes .
1.01 Editor: Word Processor . . Link QJot (Xtort) (Freeware) .   notes .
1.01 Editor: Word Processor . . Link RoughDraft (Richard Salsbury) (Freeware) . Windows 95; 98; NT; ME; 2000; XP notes c
1.01 Editor: Word Processor . . Link Steno Pad 2 (STENOPAD) (Stefan Kloppenborg) (Freeware) .   notes .
1.01 Editor: Word Processor . . Link WMAGIC MagicSoft (Kenneth Adams SMI) (Freeware) .   notes .
1.01 Editor: Word Processor PW02 . Link WordTabs (v 3.30) (Skip Bremer) (Freeware) LFW (v 3.30) discontinued (n.i.) Windows 98; NT4; 2000 notes .
1.01 Editor: Word Processor PW00 NR xxx WordWright Lextek Internationa (Spyware) (free) .   notes .
1.01 Editor: Word Processor . . Link Yeah Write Word Place Inc. (Liteware) (free) .   notes .
1.02 Bibliography . . Link Academic Citation Style Guide (v 1.0) Angel Enterprises (Richard Finnegan) (Freeware) (v 1.0) (astylev1.zip) . Windows 95; 98; ME notes .
1.02 Bibliography . . Link Bibibamos (Christian Schiestl) (Freeware) note: German language site .   notes .
1.02 Bibliography . . Link Bibliographix Bibliographix GbR (Liteware) (free) . Windows 2000; XP notes .
1.02 Bibliography . . Link MLA Auto-Generator MLA Auto-Generator team (Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL) . Windows 95; 98; NT; 2000; XP notes .
1.02 Bibliography . . Link Scribe (Elena Razlogova) (Freeware) .   notes .
1.02 Text Stats . . Link Advanced Frequency Counter (Gregory Conti) (Freeware) .   notes .
1.02 Text Stats . . Link Doc Stats (v 3.4) (Lit Sprout) (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) LFW (v 3.4) docstats.zip . Windows 95; 98; ME; 2000; XP notes .
1.02 Text Stats . . Link Frequency Counter (Gregory Conti) (Freeware) .   notes .
1.02 Text Stats . . Link Text Information (TI) (v 1.2) (Quentin J. Christensen) (Freeware) LFW (v 1.2) ti12.zip CLI   notes .
1.02 Text Stats . . Link Text Tally (TextTally) Harmony Hollow Software (Freeware) .   notes .
1.02 Text Stats . . Link TextAnalyzer SoftComplete Development (Freeware) .   notes .
1.02 Text Stats . . Link TextStat (Lionel P. Allorge) (Freeware) (open source) .   notes .
1.02 Text Stats . . Link TextSTAT (2) (Matthias Hüning) (Freeware) (open source) (n.i.) (n.r.)   notes .
1.02 Text Stats . . Link Word Count TawbaWare (Freeware) CLI   notes .
1.02 Text Stats . . Link Wurdz (Hal Brown) (Freeware) (n.i.)   notes .
1.03 Text Tool . . Link cAPSDown MasTRE Consulting Inc. (Duke Ionescu) (Freeware) . Windows 95; 98; ME notes .
1.03 Text Tool . . Link CaseIt Plus seclar (Steve Clark) (Freeware) .   notes .
1.03 Text Tool . . Link Columnizer Gulf Coastal Software (Freeware) .   notes .
1.03 Text Tool . . Link Filter (Bob Ferguson) (Freeware) (public domain) CLI   notes .
1.03 Text Tool . . Link gbText (Gary L. Beene) (Freeware) .   notes .
1.03 Text Tool . . Link InterParse (CPTKRF MMV) (Freeware) (n.i.)   notes .