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CLEAN.DOC, ver. 1.0
(c)1993 EFD Systems
CLEAN is a small utility designed for use with ASCII text file "books" produced
for TXTBook and GRFBook. This utility will "clean up" the ASCII output from
some word processors in order to make them more fully compatible with TXTBook
and GRFBook. This utility does three things:
1) Converts all "soft" carriage returns to "hard" carriage returns. Some word
processors insist on using only a "soft" return (ASCII char. 13 only) at the end
of lines and reserve a "hard" carriage return (ASCII char. 13, char. 10 pair)
for use only at the end of paragraphs.
2) Expands all Tabs (ASCII char. 9) into an equivalent number of spaces. The
actual number of spaces can be specified by the user. 8 is the default.
3) Removes all control codes (form feeds, etc.) from the file. These should not
exist in an ASCII file but some word processors may insert them anyway.
To use this utility type : CLEAN myfile.txt [spaces]
"myfile.txt' is the name of the ASCII file that you wish to clean up. Output
will always be written to myfile.ASC. "spaces" is an optional number of spaces
to be used for a TAB, 8 is the default. Hopefully, you will never need to use
this utility but it has been included just in case any problems develop.