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- PGLST.PAS - PGLST.COM
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- Print format program.
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- Copyright 1981 C. E. Duncan.
- Permission to copy for any non-commercial, personal use.
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- PGLST reads a text file of fixed or variable length character
- records, each record ending with carriage return and line feed
- ("strings" according to some), and arranges them on a print page
- in columns.
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- The purpose is to save paper, and for those occasions where
- a columnar presentation is more readable.
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- Variable length records are left justified with blank fill.
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- The program is called as follows:
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- PGLST
- Name of file to be listed: B:W3UA.LIB
- Output file: X.X
- Record length: 3
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- This will read file from B drive, name W3UA.LIB, which is a list
- of three letter words, arrange them in columns within a page size
- of sixty lines of eighty characters per line. With a spacing of
- two blanks between columns, there would be a maximum of 16 columns.
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