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- \ SHAVE.S
- \ This table strips the first 256 characters from a file
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- \ I picked 256 as an arbitrary number; you can strip any number of characters
- \ from the beginning of a file by modifying this table with a different
- \ number of wild card characters in the equation, OR you can run this table
- \ more than once on your input file and its successive output files
- \ (each run will strip another 256 characters from the beginning of the file).
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- \ Do keep in mind, though, that SNR allows a maximum of 4999
- \ characters in a conversion equation, which will effectively limit the
- \ one-time stripping length to something under 2500 characters, because
- \ wild card characters are represented by at least two characters: a slash
- \ and a letter.
-
- \ This type of table is useful in removing garbage headers of various lengths
- \ from word processing or database files.
-
- \ ignore any 256 characters following the start of job:
- \s*(256)\p=
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