SPF/PC

SPF/PC is an MS-DOS-based text editor and file manager designed to have an interface that was familiar to those using mainframe SPF and ISPF.[1]

Later Microsoft Windows-based versions were named SPF/SE and SPF/SE 365.[2] A version for OS/2 named SPF/2 was also offered.[3] SPF/SE and SPF/SE 365 were released as freeware in 2022 after the death of Tim Tetiva, the author of SPF/PC and SPF/SE.[4]

Overview

SPF/PC[5] was introduced by and successors sold by Command Technology Corporation. Similar to IBM's mainframe based ISPF and is able to edit ASCII and EBCDIC text file as a complete integrated applications development environment (IDE). Typically used for editing source code, invoking compilers, linkers, and debuggers, in a variety of programming languages, such as COBOL, Fortran, and C++.

64-bit Windows can't run SPF/PC (Will run under DOSBox), but it can still be used on 32-bit Windows (e.g. Windows XP or Windows 7 in XP Mode).[6]

Features

  • Auto source code backup
  • Auto save during edit
  • Background/Foreground compiler and utility support[5]
  • Edit small or large files (up to 1Gig)
  • Edit ASCII and EBCDIC text files
  • Command Line Interface (CLI)
  • File browser with keyword colorization
  • File manager
  • File conversion utilities
  • COBOL source code support
  • Hex editor
  • IBM (3270) and PC command keys
  • IBM ISPF Style Panels
  • Keyboard equivalents provided for all mouse operations
  • Language line numbering support
  • Language profile support
  • Line, column and bounds oriented copy, cut, data shift, find, paste, sort with picture strings
  • Line lengths (records) up to 64,000 characters in fixed or variable formats
  • Line exclude, change, find, flip, locate, not-exclude
  • Merge error files created by compilers into source code as notes (type of comment)
  • Multilevel Undo and Redo
  • Multiple sequential complex command execution - repeatable with exclude and not-exclude abilities
  • Print file, screen or highlighted text
  • Simple and advanced text/file find/replace (search through thousands of files for text)
  • Sort file lists and text/data
  • Sort A-Z, Z-A, bounding by columns, line labels etc.
  • Split screen (horizontal and vertical)
  • File and Directory comparison
  • Support for DOS/Windows/Linux/Unix EOL and EOF markers
  • User enhancements - add, create, modify dialogs, functions, menus and screens
  • User definable fonts
  • User definable editor color schemes including several 3270 schemes
  • User definable file profiles including EOL, EOF, Line Length etc.
  • User definable cursor, half page and page scrolling
  • User switchable editor line numbers or not
  • User definable keyboard and keyboard macros
  • User modifiable help system

Macro/Scripting Language

SPF/SE 365 uses a C like macro/scripting language.

All versions of SPF have the ability to call any interpreter (PHP, BASIC, Powershell, etc.) from within the editor allowing text processing and OS command calls. SPF/SE does not have the REXX interface that SPF/PC had.

References

  1. ^ "Editing with SPF/PC". Computerworld. September 19, 1988. SPC/PC uses .. extended or expanded memory
  2. ^ "SPF/SE 365". Archived from the original on April 10, 2018. Retrieved November 2, 2022.
  3. ^ "SPF/2". edm2.com. May 26, 2022. Retrieved November 2, 2022.
  4. ^ Michael Knigge (November 2, 2022). "SPF-Editor (formerly known as SPF/SE)". github.com. Retrieved November 2, 2022.
  5. ^ a b "SPF/PC can use Extended Memory". PC Magazine. February 5, 1985. p. 270.
  6. ^ "SPF-PC1 DOS application started through the Windows ntvdm". July 16, 2020. Background information: ntvdm.exe NTVDM can run at startup. SPF-PC A 16-bit DOS application based on the mainframe editor ISPF editor.

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