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- Short: Alter line ends, removes ANSI & garbage.
- Type: util/conv
- Uploader: agmsmith@shell.Portal.com
- Author: agmsmith@BIX.com
-
- What's it useful for? Changing the line ends of text files so that
- they can be used on the Amiga (line feed), Macintosh (carriage return)
- or IBM PC (CRLF). It doesn't need to be told what format the input is
- (it accepts any of them).
-
- AGMSFixText was written as an exercise in making user interfaces, so
- you can use it from the command line or as a workbench program. Both
- have lots of bells and whistles (about 95% of the program is user
- interface code).
-
- There are some other useful text fixing features: AGMSFixText can be
- told to strip the high bit from the characters (sometimes a problem
- with various BBS and other services that set the high bit). It can
- remove ANSI escape sequences. Finally, it can remove all control
- characters (except tabs and line ends which get left in on purpose).
-
- There isn't any documentation; it should be easy enough to use.
- AGMSFixText supports icon tooltypes (see the included icon or run
- AGMSFixText on itself to find likely tooltype strings), a ReadArgs
- command line (with extra help text if you know how to get it), the ASL
- file requester, hot keys, progress bar, shift-clicked icons (the first
- becomes the input and the second the output), font sensitivity (limited
- to Topaz sizes), descriptive error messages, and a few other things.
-
- - Alex
-