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ARRANGE V1.1
Hello,
This is to introduce you to this product. It is called
ARRANGE. It is a simple(?) text formatter. The basis for it's
use is to put text and commands into a file by some editor and
then taking that file and others if desired, and arranging the
text in a pleasable manner.
It is entirely written in C. The basis for this product is
the Text Formatter in Software Tools, by Kernighan and Plauger.
I have taken their simple tool and expanded it to do almost
everything a word processor does.
This product will run on many different micros. I have
compiled and run this product on a IBM AT, a HP-150, an HP-9000
Series 500, an Amiga, and a Commodore 64.
The major consideration in using this tool, is that the
source file is in straight ASCII and is easily uploadable to any
computer. The commands to do special formatting, BOLD, ITALICS,
etc. are only required on the destination computer. The source
can be written on many different machines and then combined
together on one machine. When it is run against arrange, it will
come out the same as the originators of the text expected it to
come out.
My major reason for this tool is that we all have a common
base for the production of documents, text, reports, whatever.
We can all use the product, get the format the way we want it and
then upload the MRG or source files to any computer easily. If
we want, we can get our favorite word processor to fix up the
source for our own usage, but to pass it along and have others be
able to reproduce it quickly and in the same manner, there is no
common standard. Well, I am trying to come up with a standard.
Currently, I can not and do not expect to be able to provide
the source for this product. It was developed at my place of
employment on a production machine. As such, the rights of the
source belong to my company. Although the time was mine, the
resources were theirs. They claim the right to the source. I
have permission to provide this to anybody I want to. As it is,
I am doing a lot of this work on the side and can not charge for
it. If you do not have a copy of this and want one, or would
like an update (whenever made). Send your name and address and
at least $8.00 to me. More would be helpful in allowing me to do
more products like this for a minimal cost.
Joe Kaisler,
1701 Burnwood Road
Baltimore, Maryland, 21239.
I can be reached through the following service, Compuserve
at account 72606,1404. Messages can be left to me at the AMIGA
forum(PCS-61) on Compuserve or through EMAIL.
ARRANGE V1.1
You can give this product away to anybody you want. I just
ask that you give them a copy of this letter and do not delete it
from the disk.
Please see the file ARRANGE.MRG and ARRANGE.LIS for the
commands that are used in this product.
To run this product:
1> arrange [>file.lis|PRT:|PAR:] file.mrg file1.mrg .....
"[>file.lis|PRT:|PAR:]" refers to the capability of sending
output from ARRRANGE to a file or the PRT: device or the PAR:
device.
"file.mrg file1.mrg" refers to the source files for ARRANGE.
See the file ARRANGE.MRG as an example.
There are two directories on the disk, arrange.files and
dos.files. Arrange.files contains the arrange program, and
the documentation files for it. Dos.files contains a
mini-command summary for the DOS commands.
To run them against arrange:
1> arrange >arrange.lis arrange.mrg ; Builds the arrange
document
1> arrange >cli.lis cli0.mrg cli1.mrg .... cli5.mrg
1> ; Builds the DOS command document.