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BRUCE603.DOC 1 Revised: 03/26/96
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Contact information
For the following routines: AV, BFIND, COPSINCE, DATES, DIRCOMP, DIRTOTAL,
FILL, FIXTEXT, FORTUNE, HTMSTRIP, PAGINATE, READINIT, READMAKE-created files,
and TXTABLE:
Bruce Guthrie
Wayne Software
113 Sheffield St.
Silver Spring, MD 20910
fax: (301) 588-8986
e-mail: bguthrie@nmaa.org
http://hjs.geol.uib.no/guthrie/
For the following routines: CHANGE, CONVERT, FILUPDAT, ISAMFIND/ISAMMAKE, READ,
and READY:
Bruce Guthrie
Room H-4885
U.S. Dept of Commerce/ESA/STAT-USA
Washington, DC 20230
fax: (202) 482-2164
voice: (202) 482-3234
e-mail: bguthrie@doc.gov
Foreign users: Please provide an Internet-reachable e-mail address in all
correspondence if you have any hope of getting a reply! Internet e-mail is the
preferred method of contact for all other users as well. America On-Line,
CompuServe, and Prodigy all offer Internet e-mail access so get with it!
Since these programs are typically "freeware" (with the exception of people
trying to make money from them instead of me), they generate maybe $100/year in
revenue for me. As such, my ability to afford wonderful customer support is
somewhat restricted. Please do not leave messages saying "Call me long
distance". Also, please be specific about what problems you encounter and
include command-line inputs as well as any control or INI files that you're
using.
The "production" releases of these programs are posted directly by me (Bruce
Guthrie, the author) on the Simtel ftp site at ftp.coast.net. More information
about locations at this site is provided later. People are encouraged to upload
them to bulletin board systems but I do not upload them to BBS's myself.
Standard disclaimer in this society: Wayne Software disclaims all warranties as
to this software, whether express or implied, including without limitation any
implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose,
functionality, data integrity or protection.
BRUCE603.DOC 2 Revised: 03/26/96
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Introduction
This documentation provides some overview information on a number of utilities.
All programs described herein were written by Bruce Guthrie. Most are
distributed with a Wayne Software copyright. Others were written for the U.S.
Department of Commerce. All are free for use provided relevant documentation is
kept with the programs, no changes are made to the programs or documentation,
and they are not bundled with commercial programs or charged for separately.
CHANGE, CONVERT, FILUPDAT, ISAMFIND/ISAMMAKE, READ, and READY are excluded from
the commercial-packaging restriction. These programs are owned by the U.S.
Department of Commerce and may be re-distributed without restriction.
People who need to bundle AV, BFIND, COPSINCE, DATES, DIRCOMP, DIRTOTAL, FILL,
FIXTEXT, FORTUNE, HTMSTRIP, PAGINATE, READINIT, or TXTABLE in commercial
packages other than shareware/freeware collections must pay a $50 registration
fee to "Wayne Software" at the following address. READMAKE-created files are
also subject to this limitation. I don't expect to make any money from these
utilities but I don't want others to sell them instead.
This collection of utilities were compiled using Microsoft's Visual BASIC for
DOS 1.0 compiler. Thomas G. Hanlin III's excellent PBClone routines, release
2.3, provided additional functionality. Since Tom has dropped support for his
PBClone routines, some things will are simply not possible for me to do so don't
push! The basic routines should be able to be maintained indefinitely as long
as DOS continues to exist; we'll see. I keep thinking that I should be doing
Windows programming but it's hard to get psyched up for that when you think of
Windows as a computer virus.
Documentation provided in appropriate ZIP files:
* routine.DOC: Each utility is separately described in a like-named *.DOC file.
* FILE_ID.DIZ: Standard Description In Zip file.
* BRUCEymm.DOC: This file serves to summarize all of the various utilities.
The "ymm" indicates the release date in year/month format. "601" means
1996, first month (Jan 1996).
* BRUCEINI.DOC: Most of the routines have defaults that can altered by using
initialization files (inifiles). These are referenced in the regular
documentation and further described here. (One thing about *.INI files; if
you don't have one, it's in your interests to specify the "/-I" parameter.
Otherwise, the program searches your entire DOS path looking for the file.)
* BRUCEHEX.DOC: Many of the routines allow you to enter parameters as either
hexadecimal or decimal strings. This is referenced in the regular
documentation and further described here.
All program documentation was created using a text editor (PE2). The
PAGINATE command (see below) was used to justify the text and create
titles, page breaks, and (where provided) indexes.
Beta testers and suggestions are always appreciated. Contact me at
bguthrie@nmaa.org Note that all beta releases are done via e-mail so if your
gateway can't handle some pretty big mail attachments, you definitely do NOT
want to be a beta tester for me! Modifications that are not of mainstream use
can be contracted for.
BRUCE603.DOC 3 Revised: 03/26/96
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The programs themselves
The utilities are uploaded with a ZIP name that includes the year and month of
the release in a "ymm" format ("603" is the March 1996 version). The files are
posted directly by the author to two places. The following Web site has the
current versions of *all* programs:
http://hjs.geol.uib.no/guthrie/
Thanks to Hans Schrader for the Web site! Major releases are also posted on the
Simtel archives at ftp.coast.net (Web to http://www.coast.net/SimTel site.)
Users are encouraged to post the files on bulletin boards and such but, again,
the author directly posts only to these sites.
If you're using a version of the programs that's more than a year old, it's
almost always the case that there's a newer version. Please check for an
update. If you can receive binary attachments, contact me at bguthrie@nmaa.org
for free updates. Alternatively, send $10 made out to "Wayne Software" to the
Wayne Software address above and I'll send you everything on diskette. (If you
need anything other than 3.5" high density, specify that too please.)
The versions of each program posted on SimTel are documented below along with
the directory information for this site. The *current* versions of *all*
programs are posted on the Web site in Norway.
This listing is current as of the February 1996 (602) release.
SimTel/msdos/arcutil/
av602.zip Archive View: Free ZIP etc directory viewer
AV.EXE: Archive directory viewer. Presents list of files in archive (ZIP,
ARC, etc) and lets you sort as desired. Also allows resetting of the file
date based on the archive's contents.
SimTel/msdos/textutil/
bfind511.zip Boolean FIND command (BFIND BEGIN & END)
BFIND.EXE: Allows Boolean-type FIND requests. For example, find any line
with one string AND anot