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U1-06: File Changing, Copying, and Deleting
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1997 File Cleanup Utilities Small Programs Disk
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ADDCRS
will add Carriage Returns to a downloaded file that does not appear to have
them when you try to list it using the DOS TYPE command.
AWK 2.10
Duff, Rob
$0
is a sophisticated program for scanning files for lines that match a specified
pattern. Several programs in the library perform this function on a simple
level, but AWK is more like a programming language. For example, it has
conditional statements, variables, relational operators, loops, and
concantenation of patterns. AWK is used mostly in two different ways: to
print reports by printing selected fields and extracting counts, sums and
sub-totals, and to convert data files from one format to another (eg:
rearranging fields). An example of a practical use of AWK would be to clean
up message files downloaded from a bbs.
Clean
$0
removes all control characters, except for carriage returns and line feeds,
from a text file. When prompted, supply a filename to process. The original
file is not changed.
Clean List 1.0 (CLEANL)
Lacambra, Fernando
$5
deletes duplicate lines from a sorted text file.
Clip
Lazo, Charles III
$?
clips any unwanted ^Z's, carriage returns or line feeds from the end of files.
Delchar
O'Rear, Larry
$5
deletes specified characters from a file. For example, you could use DelChar
to get rid of a word processor's control characters left in the documentation
files of some programmers.
Do 3.3 (DO-LH)
Hutton, Larrie
$?
is a utility that performs various file conversion functions stripping high
bits, converting case, adding line numbers, expanding tabs, copying by column,
finding/replacing strings, merging files, sorting files, etc. There's no
documentation, so you'll have to study carefully the examples on the program's
screen.
Fileutil (FILUTIL)
Rowley, Chris
$?
is a combination of UNWS and ADDLF with case conversion, full support for the
subdirectories and back-ups allowed.
Noblank
removes blank lines from text files.
Strip-cr
strips extra Carriage Returns.
Stripper 1.0
Rygiel, Patrick
$10
strips all non-printable characters out of text files, including all line
drawing and other characters above 127 and below 32.
Tab2Spc 1.2
converts a text file containing tabs to one containing spaces in place of
the tabs. The number of spaces to substitute may be specified by the user.
Text
Kennamer, Walter ASP
$?
alters the text within a file as specified in the command line. It allows you
to delete all "white space" (multiple blank spaces) or just leading or
trailing white space or reduce all white space to a single blank space. It
will also convert upper to lower case or vice versa. Text in quotes can be
excluded.
Top20 1.11
Bouwman, Brian
$0
finds and displays on one screen the 20 largest files on a disk, which is very
useful information when trying to regain space on a full drive. It's also
pretty fast.
Trimline (TRIMLIN)
simply removes trailing blanks from the end of lines in a text file.
Weed 2.0
Pinnacle Help
$4-$6
cleans up a text file by weeding out unwanted text, such as you might get in a
download from a bbs. It will let you specify up to 100 different bits of text
to search for and delete. In addition, you may choose to have it delete all
lines which do or do NOT contain specified text.
Wrapline 2.0 (WRAPLIN)
Nassar, Nassib ASP
$0
reformats a text file by wrapping lines of text longer than the specified line
width. This is probably of value only for rough "emergency" work, since it
chops off at the specified length without doing wordwrap. It is very fast,
however.
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END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #1997
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0781 Text File Conversion Small Programs Disk
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ASC2MM
Graham, Keith P.
$0
will convert ASCII files to Multimate documents in seconds instead of hours.
Asc2Word (ASC2WRD)
Marshall, George
$?
converts a normal ASCII text file into Microsoft Word format. C source code
is included.
AsciiRef 2.0 (ASCIREF)
LePoer, Peter M.
$15
lets you reformat files of bibliographic citations into an ASCII delimited
format that other programs, such as dBase and Paradox, can import. Such
citations can be downloaded from on-line services, such as Medline, ERIC and
Paperchase. The program can be configured by the user to work with any
database format. A sample file is included.
ASCutils (ASCUTIL)
$?
$0
is a set of compact file modification utilities with assembler source code.
The utilities perform such functions as removing duplicate lines, trimming
space off the end of lines and other clean-up chores.
Baab
Gans, Ronald
$0
stands for "Binary-to-ASCII, ASCII-to-Binary". BAAB lets you convert a file
that is not all printable text to one that is so that you can TYPE it to the
screen, print it out or transmit it in ASCII format (in which case the person
receiving it must have BAAB to convert the file back to ASCII). This is not
needed for communications systems that support Xmodem, but some local
Email-type systems only allow ASCII transfers.
Cols 1.00
Dunford, Christopher J.
$0
takes single-column input (a list of names in a file, for example) and
converts it to double-column input with numerous options to control the output
format. You can specify file names or COLS can be used with DOS piping and
redirection tools.
Convdw 1.2
CrossCourt Systems ASP
$15
converts Displaywrite 3 or 4 files to ASCII. This program ignores most
formatting codes. It does recognize Indent codes, and pads subsequent lines
with enough tabs to maintain the proper indent level. It handles syllable
("soft") hyphens correctly, dropping them unless they occur at the end of a
line. It normally translates all line ends to carriage returns, but there is
an option to drop the "soft" returns.
Filters
offers the following filters:
Upper - translate all lowercase characters to uppercase
Lower - translate all uppercase characters to lowercase
Snglspc - removes extra blank lines from a file
Unique - deletes multiple occurances from a sorted list
Trunc - truncates a line at first matching char (or space)
Fecho - echoes standard input to screen (great for debugging)
Translat - puts each word of a file onto a separate line.
Feed - reads a filespec and sends files to standard output
Forclean - takes a fortran source and deletes comments and
labels.
Modify
Software Clinic Development
$20
makes it easy to modify text files. While it can be used with any kind of text
files, it is ideally suited for small files that are subject to frequent change,
such as batch files. With Modify, you can easily change text on a specified line
or insert a line before a specified line. Lines are specified by giving word(s)
of text that appear on the line. (The authors are no longer at the address
provided in the documentation.)
MUD 2.9a [MUD29A]
JD Enterprises
$10
is a Mac/Unix DOS ASCII file translator. Coversions include DOS to Mac,
DOS to UNIX, UNIX to DOS, UNIX to Mac, Mac to UNIX, and Mac to DOS. (Not
on this disk. Special order from the February 1994 CD: 33K.)
NUM (NUM2)
adds line numbers to the lines in text files.
Quick-ASCII (QA)
a utility to convert a file to all ASCII characters. The output will not
be pretty, but it will be readable. Thus, if you have, say, a MultiMate file,
but no MultiMate, and are curious to know what it is, just run QA.
RTrim 5.4
Keber, Robert F Jr.
$10
[FEB. 1994 CD]
trims blank spaces, spacebars, and nulls from the right end of all lines of text
in any ASCII text file. It can also add spaces to the beginning of each