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.

Later Microsoft Windows-based versions were named SPF/SE and SPF/SE 365. A version for OS/2 named SPF/2 was also offered. 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.

Overview
SPF/PC 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).

Features
• Auto source code backup

• Auto save during edit

• Background/Foreground compiler and utility support

• 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.