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Enclosed are:
column_set.MOD - BENCHMARK Modula-2 source code for the column_set executable.
column_set.doc - an excuse sheet for foisting this program on an unsuspecting
Amiga community.
column_set - an executable to typeset a file of one "word" per line into
as many even columns as will fit across a page with at least
one space between columns, with lots of options.
ld - a primitive directory listing AmigaDOS script (hopefully
self documenting) which uses the column_set executable to
lay out a listing of a directory with more than two columns
of (sorted) file names. Uses AmigaDOS functions "list" and
"sort", my "column_set", and the PD routine "less". This
is included because it was my dissatisfaction with the "dir"
output that led me to write column_set in the first place.
In typical Unix(tm) fashion, I used working routines where
possible, and wrote only the minimum additional code needed
to complete the task, as "column_set.MOD". Script "ld" is
a moderately interesting example in itself for those, like
me, to whom the AmigaDOS Manual's description of script
construction leaves working examples lacking, and concepts
unclear.
Kent Paul Dolan, xanthian@well.sf.ca.us, 27 October 1989