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║ Information About PUTTER - From File PUTTER.INF ║
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║ PAF Review - Edition 94.4 - December 1994 ║
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Allows you to "putter" around with text files including such files as
IGI text file extracts.
Version: 0.1 (later commercial version available)
Author: Harvey C. Thackston
Address: 1540 Willowdale Dr., San Jose, CA. 95118
EMail: Internet: 76517.2574@compuserve.com
CompuServe: 76517,2574
Version Date: April 1992
BBS File Name: PUTTER.ZIP
Software Type: Freeware
Fee: N/A
Read/Write: Reads input file, writes modified copy
PUTTER is similar to a stream editor. It moves 8 bit characters from a
source file to a destination file; inserting, deleting and modifying
characters as it moves them. PUTTER will not improve your golf game.
It just lets you putter around in your text, word processor, database
and spread-sheet files.
Putter does not itself contain any intelligence or knowledge about the
files upon which it operates. That information is contained in task
files. Task files are plain text ASCII files created by the user using
any convenient text editor. Task files may contain only printing
characters, space, carriage return and line feed.
Task files look somewhat like BASIC programs using a very curtailed
instruction set. In fact PUTTER recognizes only 15 keywords and 6
relational operators (note 1). It is actually an interpretive compiler
and task files are the programs that it runs.
One of the design objectives was that PUTTER should be easy to learn and
not require a great deal of programming experience on the part of the
operator. Most task files contain fewer than 20 lines even for rather
complex tasks. Another design objective was that it should be terse and
not tire the fingers.
"Everyone wants to peel his own banana" seems to be the rule among
software designers. PUTTER is the author's effort to provide a vehicle
for transporting data from one system platform to another when the
"tools" are getting in the way.
An example task file for manipulating an IGI text file is included.
Customized versions can be negotiated by contacting the author.