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TAG.EXE 6/1/91 5008 bytes (Consolidated utilities & .BAT)
6/8/91 Added search for TAGLINES.KEY along current path
if not in current directory.
10/27/91 Combined QWK and TAG and added generic search
with phone number removal. This runs faster,
since MESSAGES.DAT does not have to be expanded
first. (Sorry to those who download text, will
do that version later) Program is now "QTAG".
Quite often when reading the conference mail, the taglines are
more interesting than some of the messages. Rather than continue
to collect the taglines manually, the "TAG" program will extract,
sort, remove any duplicates and save them, automatically.
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Referenced Tagline files: QTAG, QWK, QSORT, DUP, ASC8toWP
QTAG Extracts all taglines from the QWK MESSAGES.DAT file. It then
sorts them, removes duplicates and headers, then lists them to
an output file. ie.
QTAG ; Lists taglines from MESSAGES.DAT on CON
QTAG tag ; Saves MESSAGES.DAT taglines in file TAG
QTAG file.dat tag ; Saves QWK file file.dat taglines in TAG
QWK Expands MESSAGES.DAT (or REP RBBS.MSG) files to text.
QSORT - is a Quicksort that can ignore case with the compare starting
at an optionally given column. (max entries is up to 9k lines
depending on avail. memory) Type "QSORT" for help.
DUP - removes duplicates in a sorted list. If no output file is
given the output goes to the console. The compare can be
limited to a range by col and len. If that is done, the file
must have been sorted by that field. Switches are available
to ignore case, ignore delimiters (-a) (ie "HI, There..." is
equal to "Hi there!") or what ever. Type "DUP" for help.
ASC8toWP
Converts eight bit ASCII to WP5.1 format. If a HEADER.WP5 file
is present in the current set path, it will be used instead of
the defaults. HEADER.WP5 is an WP5.0 or WP5.1 header file that
should be empty except for margin, tag, and font settings. The
program ASC8toWP translates all characters except for 9 (tab),
10 (linefeed), 12 (form feed) and 13 (carriage returns). Form
feeds are converted by WP. Carriage returns are skipped. Tabs
are converted. Line feeds are converted to hard returns.
Note: WP doesn't translate the characters #00 through #31. It
also sometimes seems to have problems translating lines
ending in tabs or spaces.
Used as: ( Could be a batch file )
>PKUNZIP rbbs.QWK MESSAGES.DAT ; expand file
>QTAG tags.tmp ; extract taglines
>edit tags.tmp ; remove unwanted taglines
>COPY TAGS.OLD+tags.tmp tags.new ; add old to new tags
>QSORT tags.new taglines ; sort combimed list
>DEL tags.* ; delete old files
>DUP taglines TAGS.OLD -a ; remove duplicates
>DEL taglines ; clean up
> At some point you may wish to further edit the taglines
>ASC8toWP TAGS.OLD TAGS.WP5 ; allow printing by WP
>COPY TAGS.OLD TAGLINES.MR ; convert to SLMR format
etc..