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- !Help for !BasCrunch v 1.02
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-
- BASIC cruncher by gnari (Email: gnari@grun.is RealWorld: Ragnar Hafstað).
- Desktop front-end by Dick Alstein.
-
- As its name suggests, this application crunches BASIC programs, resulting
- in smaller and faster code, in addition to it being incomprehensible and
- hard to debug.
-
-
- The desktop application
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-
- The program installs itself on the icon bar. To crunch a BASIC file, drag
- its icon from a Filer window to the icon bar icon. A "Save as:" box opens,
- allowing you to enter the leaf name of the crunched file. Then drag the
- icon from the box to a Filer window, or to an application (like !Edit).
-
- (Note: the original file will be replaced by the crunched one if you use
- the same leaf name and drag it to the same directory.)
-
- The menu has, apart from the usual "Info" and "Quit", one entry: "Options"
- opens a window in which you can set the various crunching options. Some
- options may need a bit of explanation:
-
- Output suitable for editor
- The most compact crunching results in files that may not be editable
- anymore. You can still load the files into an editor (!Edit, !StrongEd,
- whatever) to view them. But if you make a few changes and save the
- file, the program may not work anymore. (The editors have difficulty in
- re-tokenising the compacted BASIC code). Setting this option leaves a
- few extra spaces in the crunched file, so it is still editable.
-
- Create line '0REM <filename>'
- Adds a REM line with the filename of the original to the crunched code.
- (Note: You should not have a line with number 0 in the original; that
- line will be lost if this option is set.)
-
- Exceptions
- Use this option if you want to crunch most, but not all variable names.
- Put the names of these variables in a Text file, and drop the file on
- the icon. You can also type the filename in into the icon.
- The variable names must be separated by Newline. Note that for example,
- 'count' will also refer to 'count%', 'count$', 'PROCcount', 'FNcount'.
-
-
- The Options window is also opened when you click on the icon bar icon with
- Select.
-
-
- The command-line program
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-
- !BasCrunch is a front-end to the command line program 'ccrunch' residing
- inside this application. Command-line freaks can use it directly.
-
- Syntax:
-
- *ccrunch [switches]
- switches are:
- -h gives minimal help and sytax reminder
- -v reports on progress
- -m disables multiple statement line building
- -f disables crunching of FN/PROC names
- -e disables discarding of empty lines
- -s disables crunching of variables.(implies -f)
- -n disables changing SYS names to numbers
- -t implements text friendly crunching. this is to make
- crunched output convertable to text and back in a non
- destructive way. mainly, this means that spaces are left
- between tokens and variables.
- -r does not remove REM's and assembler comments
- -rn does not remove REM's and comments in the first n lines
- -0 adds a line: 0REM crunched "<filename>"
- this does not renumber, so you should not have
- a line number 0.
- -xfile file contains a list of variables not to be crunched
- -ifile source file. the -i may be omitted.
- -ofile destination file. the -o may be omitted.
- if this parameter is omitted then source filename is used
-
- All switches are case sensitive.
-
- Examples:
-
- *ccrunch file will crunch file with all options
- enabled and overwrite original program.
-
- *ccrunch -v -m -e -s -n file file2 Will crunch file, only removing
- spaces and REMs and such, and save
- result as file2. It will report on
- progress.
-
- Bugs and sane suggestions should be addressed to the authors
-
- ccrunch:
- gnari (Ragnar Hafstað)
- Grun Ltd
- Box 852, Brautarholt 2
- 121 Reykjavík
- Iceland
-
- Tel: (354)(1)624672
- Email: gnari@grun.is
-
-
- front-end:
- Dick Alstein
- Lijnslagerstraat 204
- NL-5625 BP Eindhoven
- The Netherlands
-
- Tel: +31 40 428318
- Email: wsinda@info.win.tue.nl
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