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TextTools is a collection of ASCII text filters and other goodies. Many of the programs process text-format tables, and offer powerful and unique functionality.
All TextTools programs run from the command line, or from batch files.
All TextTools programs and documentation are Copyright (c) 1996 by Rune Berg. All rights reserved.
TextTools Release 2 is Freeware. It may be freely distributed and used for non-commercial purposes only. It may be included on Shareware/Freeware/PD CD-ROM collections, though. It must not be modified in any way, and must be distributed in its entirety.
Please note that future TextTools releases may well be Shareware.
| Disclaimer: Rune Berg disclaims all warranties as to this software and its documentation, whether express or implied, including without limitation any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, functionality or data integrity or protection. |
| Table-oriented programs | |
|---|---|
| tcols | project and transform table columns |
| trows | select table rows that fulfill given conditions |
| tsort | sort table on result of projection/transform |
| tand | print table entries present in two files |
| tjoin | database-style join of two tables |
| Programs for copying part of files | |
|---|---|
| first | copy first n lines of file |
| last | copy last n lines of file |
| lines | copy specifically numbered lines of file |
| middle | copy middle part of file |
| Other text filters | |
|---|---|
| eol | convert between DOS and UNIX end-of-line styles |
| xtabs | expand tabs to spaces |
| itabs | insert tabs in place of spaces |
| Miscallenous | |
|---|---|
| lsx | list directory contents grouped on file basename |
| sum | sum up integers in file |
| acho | echo with ANSI codes for colour etc. |
| closure | compute closure of graph of text nodes |
| create | create empty files |
| dump | dump file contents in hex/decimal/octal |
The readme.txt file tells you to start with doc_html/txttools.htm
The doc_html directory contains documentation for the TextTools programs.
The exe.dos contains the DOS executables.
All documentation has been overhauled. Many small and not-so-small errors have been corrected.
All documentation is now in the form of HTML files. You're reading the top-level file now.
As for the programs themselves:
| PROGRAM | VERSION | CHANGES SINCE RELEASE 1 |
|---|---|---|
| acho | 1.01 | None. |
| closure | 1.01 | None. |
| create | 1.10 | Added -w option: warn if file exists, don't create, continue. Added -q option: quiet mode, suppress creation reports and warnings. |
| dump | 1.10 | Added -no option: don't show offsets. Added -nh option: don't show "dump of ..." header. |
| eol | 1.02 | None. |
| first | 1.01 | None. |
| itabs | 1.01 | None. |
| last | 1.01 | None. |
| lines | 1.00 | None. |
| lsx | 1.10 | Added -r option: show read-only files in red, others in green. |
| middle | 1.02 | None. |
| sum | 1.02 | None. |
| tand | 1.02 | None. |
| tjoin | 1.02 | None. |
| tcols | 1.20 | Added nl function: append "\n" string. Added prf function: print formatted (minimal printf). Added tr function: trim leading and trailing blanks. |
| trows | 1.20 | Added pattern matching operator ~ supporting full regular expressions. + same as for tcols. |
| tsort | 1.20 | Same as for tcols. |
| xtabs | 1.01 | None. |
This is just the second release. Though well tested, expect some bugs.
All included executables run in real-mode, and don't use expanded or extended memory. Thus, some of the programs have limited capacity.
All included executables are debug builds, i.e. they're compiled with asserts etc., to help in catching bugs. This means they run a little slower than they really could.
Ok, hope you find these programs useful. Any feedback is much appreciated.
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Cheers,
- Rune