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┬êxτ ╒rêαkêr 1.4
Copyright (c) 1993 Gregory Sherman
INTRODUCTION
Text Freaker transforms ordinary text into ƒrêαky τêxτ. It can change
letters to wêïrδ characters, reverse lines, rotate lines, change case of
letters, double characters, or perform any combination of the preceding.
It can be used for writing distinctive taglines and whenever you want your
words to look ƒrêαky. The program takes a text file as input and produces
a ƒrêαky τêxτ file as output. If you have comments or suggestions, you
can send E-mail via Internet to me:
Gregory.Sherman@f129.n102.z1.fidonet.org
SHAREWARE
This program is being distributed as shareware. Therefore, feel free
to give unregistered copies to friends, upload the program to BBSs, etc.
Please distribute the original archive FRK14.ZIP, which contains this
file, FREAK.EXE, and FRK-REG.FRM.
If you decide to continue using this program after evaluating it, you must
register. Unregistered copies produce a registration notice at the top of
output files, which are limited to 2 lines. When you register, you will
receive instructions to prevent this notice from ever appearing again
and to remove the 2-line limitation. Your registration will be valid for
all future versions, which may have a higher registration fee. Therefore,
it is to your advantage to register now rather than later.
REGISTRATION
The registration fee is $3. This price is valid until the next version
of Text Freaker is released. Mail a check (US funds, US bank), postal
money order, or cash to:
Gregory Sherman
4750 Sawtelle Blvd.
Culver City CA 90230
Remember to include your name as you want it to appear when the program
runs and your mailing address. Also, specify that you are registering
Text Freaker 1.4. You may use the included registration form, FRK-REG.FRM.
INSTRUCTIONS
If you place FREAK.EXE in a directory included in the PATH statement
of your AUTOEXEC.BAT file, you will be able to run it from any directory.
To run the program from the DOS prompt, type:
freak [-b#, -e#, -c , -d , -f , -i , -o, -r#] <Infile> [Outfile]
Infile and Outfile are the names of the input and output files. If no
output file is specified the output file will have the same root name
as the input file, with a .FRK extension. For example "freak m.txt"
will produce output in a file named "m.frk".
You use command-line switches to specify conversion options:
"-b#" begins conversion on line # of the input file
"-e#" ends conversion on line # of the input file
"-c" writes capital letters in place of small letters, and vice versa
"-d" doubles characters, but when used with -f it produces ordinary
letters followed by ƒrêαky characters
"-f" writes ƒrêαky characters in place of most letters
"-i" inverts (reverses) each line of the input file
"-o" overwrites the input file with the converted text
"-r#" rotates the lines of the input file by a # of places to the right
For a line of length L, a rotation right R places is equivalent to
a rotation left (L - R) places.
The order in which you type the switches does not matter.
NOTE: The "-b#" and "-e#" switches work only in registered programs.
If no switch is used, ƒrêαky characters are produced and nothing else.
Examples:
"freak -r7 -o greeting.txt" will produce a new GREETING.TXT in which each
line of the old GREETING.TXT is rotated 7 places rightward
"freak -f -i taglines.txt taglines.mr" will produce TAGLINES.MR,
in which letters will be ƒrêαkêδ and lines will be written backwards
"freak -d -b12 -e17 ltr5" will produce LTR5.FRK, in which characters
in LTR5 will be doubled from lines 12 through 17
"freak" will write command-line switches on the screen
Ordinary and "improved" alphabets:
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
αbçδêƒghïjk│m∩òpqrsτúwxyzÅßÇDε╒G╫I⌡K£MÑΘ₧QR$┬ÜVWX¥Z
DISCLAIMER
This program is provided "as is". Use at your own risk. Gregory Sherman
disclaim all warranties, including any implied warranties of
merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
Thanks for trying ┬êxτ ╒rêαkêr
τhê ê∩δ