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The Fabulous Text Sucking Leech is a utility that opens files and
pulls text out of the data fork to a text file of your determination.
You simply select Open from the file menu, and the file will be
read into memory (all in one pass). If memory is not available, you
will be notified and your only alternative will be to increase the
multifinder partition or purchase some more SIMMS.
Once the file has been read, you will designate the name of the TEXT
file to be created.
After this the original file will be translated into your text file
according to the settings you have selected in the options menu.
These are;
A. Insert Format: This option allows you to insert a marker such as
a carriage return into the output file every 40,60,80, or
100 characters.
B. Format With: This is the marker character. Normally you would choose
a sensible character such as a carriage return, but you can also
select a space or line feed when you are feeling frivolous.
C. Ignore: The characters you wish to ignore will not be considered as
text and will not be translated into your output file.
You may select any or all of these;Returns, Tabs, Spaces, numbers (0-9),
and the set of characters !"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?
D. Contiguous: This option allows you to eliminate some of the garbage
in your output file. The number you select (1,2,4,8,16 or 32)
indicates the minimum number of contiguous ASC characters in a
stream of text that will be output. If the Leech runs into a single
lone character and you have set contiguous to 2, that character will
not be output.
The Fabulous Text Sucking Leech can serve you in many strange and wonderful
ways! For instance, it can serve as a HyperCard Stack disassembler.
Try it on a stack and you will see what I mean! Try Bomber, for instance.
You will be questioned as to why you are looking at their copyrighted code.
You might use it as a text recovery program. If you have a word processor
file that has been trashed, the leech may help you to at least salvage the
text.
As always, I would appreciate a contribution of $5. It ain't easy seeing
that hundreds of people download a program, but only one or two take the
time to make a contribution. I'll wager that you will find the program
to be usefull but that you would like to see some changes. Let me know
what they are!
Thankyou
John Shepardson
2000 Dober Court
Virginia Beach VA 23456