What is McSink?

Desk Accessory

McSink is a shareware advertisement for Vantage, a commercial version of McSink which is published by Preferred Publishers. Being an advertisement, we hope you'll upgrade to Vantage if you like McSink based on the really neat additional features you get with Vantage. If you like McSink, you'll probably love Vantage.

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Do your favorite applications allow you to check the number of characters, words, or paragraphs in any given text selection? Can you sort; add line numbers; columnize data; or choose to see tab, space, and carriage returns as symbols? Delete files without leaving an open document? Display and edit file info such as Type and Creator codes? McSink, a very ambitious shareware desk accessory, purports to do all this and more. And with bug fixes and enhancements spawning new versions almost monthly, McSink comes close to matching expectations with performance.

Initially, McSink sported a single window and a hodgepodge menu. Now, the program handles up to 16 concurrent windows and offers nearly 50 text-editing and file-management options. To edit text, however, you must first bring it into the McSink window by copying it from the Clipboard. You can also open files saved in text-only format and previously created McSink files.

Once you place text inside a McSink window, you can set parameters for changing the case of letters or words, for indentations, for converting tabs to spaces and back again, for adding line numbers, and for columnizing information. Prefix and suffix strings can be added to selected lines as can line feeds. Trailing white space can be stripped from selected text.

Version 4.4 seems to fix a bug that made McSink crash when writing to any printer besides an ImageWriter. No matter what printer you use (including laser printers), text appears only in draft mode. A handy new option, Statistics, records how many characters, words, lines, sentences, and paragraphs occur within a selection; but because it doesn t always count carriage returns as the start of a new paragraph, paragraph data can be unreliable. Change and Change All options have been added to the Find feature. Switching from “Word wrap to length” (you set line length in a dialog box) to “Word wrap to window” (text wraps to whatever size you make the window) now takes much less time. And in a bug fix, McSink no longer crashes when quitting MacWrite with more than one McSink window open.

Stefanac, Suzanne. (August 1988). Everything but the Kitchen. Macworld. (pg. 119).

Download McSink for Mac

Architecture

Motorola 68K

System Requirements

From Mac OS 4.1

Compatibility notes

• Version 4.4 Requirements
  • Macintosh 512KE
  • System 4.1 or later

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Mini vMac