First select the input text file(s) you are going to process. Specify the full path and file name within the Input File text box. Rather than typing in the full path, you may browse to a file or folder. For a single file click the File.. button, for an entire folder click the Folder.. button.
Note: If you want to specify a whole folder of files, use the wildcard characters * and/or ?.
For example:
D:\input-files\*.txt
If you've selected a single input file, you can easily view and edit it by clicking the Edit Input File button. The document will open in Notepad (or your default text file editor). Alternatively, if you chose a whole folder you can open the folder quickly within Windows Explorer by pressing the Explore Input Folder.. button.
NOTE: There are options specific to both the input and output file(s). Click on the Options (ALT-O) button to modify their settings.
You can optionally specify the following in the program and command line and user interface:
Path |
Typical Interpretation |
%USERPROFILE% or %HOMEPATH% |
C:\Users\UserName |
%APPDATA% | C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming |
%LOCALAPPDATA% | C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local |
%MYDOCUMENTS% | C:\Users\UserName\Documents |
You'll notice that all the provided examples use %appdata%. This is how we were able to install examples that were ready to run out of the box in a folder known to have full read/write privileges.
See also:
STEP 1