


              02/01/93 - the RySoft familiy of MSDOS utilities



TRIKSTER -                  A test data generator for text files
   Available now!                                 $25.00 registration

  This utility allows you to manipulate text files containing data. It is
just the thing for quickly creating test data for QAing chnages.

  You can make these kinds of changes to text files:
  1. Add columns.
  2. Delete columns.
  3. Overlay new data into existing columns.
  4. Reorder columns.
  5. Resize the records:
     a. Shorten or lengthen records.
     b. Change a variable length text file to fixed length.

Data that is added to a file can be derived from a number of sources. A
specific character or string pattern can be specified, a file can be
specified containing a series of records that will be used sequentially,
or specify an alphanumeric sequence (starting value and increment size).


SURGEON -                   A file slicer dicer
   Available now!                                 $25.00 registration

  This utility allows you to dissect files and reassemble them. This works
like cut, copy and paste in your word processor, but from the command line.

  You specify exact offsets and lengths of pieces of the file that you want
extracted into a clipboard file. This clipboard file can then be pasted into
another file. Paste operations can insert data, moving the existing data to
make room, or it can overlay existing data, replacing it.

  This is useful anytime you are investigating or modifiing file structures
at a low level in ways that the creating program does not allow.

  Some examples of use:
  1. Extracting subsets of information from large database files.
  2. Rearranging / Creating test data.

  This utility does require a knowledge of the internal format of the file
  to be operated on, and is not for casual users. Sections of the file are
  identified by exact offset in the file and the length of each piece.


XVERT -                     A generic file conversion utility
   Available soon!                                $35.00 registration

  This utility allows you to convert the contents and internal format of
the data in any binary MSDOS file into any other desired internal format
or arrangement. During this process the fields of an existing database
file can be rearranged and/or reformatted.

  You can:
  1. Change any fields datatype to any other compatible internal format.
    i.e. int to long, int to string, string to int, char to byte, string
         to boolean, float to int, float to IEEE-extended, ASCIIZ string
         fields to Pascal Style strings, and any other conversion that
         you can think of.

  2. Copy only selected fields from the input to the output.
  3. Select records to be copied based on fields within each record.
  4. Convert fixed fielded text files to record oriented binary files.
     Great for use with TRIKSTER.


XLIST -                     A generic file list utility
   Available soon!                                $35.00 registration

  This utility allows you to do quick flexible reports from any format
flat file. You can select the records and fields that you want displayed.
You can specify ranges of records to use for the report. You can specify
field widths, field headers, field formatting, page numbering, report
headings.

  This is not a comprehensive reporting utility, but there are many
occasions when all of the features (and size) of a full blown generic
reporting utility would be a waste. XLIST is just right in for many of
these situations.


XDUMP -                     A hex dump utility
   Available Now!                                 Free with any of the above!

  This utility reads any MSDOS file and produces formatted hex dump listings
on the screen, or to a file or printer. You can specify many options for how
the output is formatted. It can be shown as Bytes, Words, Longs. Fast and
flexible, great adjunct for SURGEON, XVERT, XLIST or any file investigations.


