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help for textpad                                                 (Roger Newson)
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Call TextPad to edit a file

        textpad [ command_line_parameters ] [ filename ]

    where command_line_parameters is a list of command line parameters for
    TextPad. (See internal on-line help for TextPad under Command Line
    Parameters).


Description

    textpad calls the TextPad text editor, if this editor is installed on the
    user's system.  The TextPad text editor is a powerful multi-purpose text
    editor, available under Microsoft Windows operating environments.


Technical note

    textpad assumes that the path of the TextPad executable is stored in the
    global macro $TextPad_path, unless that macro is empty, in which case it
    assumes that the path of the TextPad executable is "c:\Program
    Files\TextPad 5\TextPad.exe".  The user can set the global macro
    $TextPad_path in the user-profile file profile.do.


Examples

        . textpad create1.do


Author

    Roger Newson, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London,
    UK.
    Email: r.newson@imperial.ac.uk


Also see

     Manual: [D] shell
    On-line: help for shell, winexec, profile
      Other: TextPad, Some notes on text editors for Stata users