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- NOCZ.DOC
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- This little utility does only one thing, and it does that well. It strips
- every ^Z (Ctrl-Z) from your document files. After you use this little
- filter you file will have no Ctrl-Z's in it.
-
- Why would anyone ever want to eliminate this little bugger? Simply in order
- to read the entire file in which Ctrl-Z's are embedded. It's easy to create
- a file with a Ctrl-Z in it by appending another part to it. If that
- happens, then many, if not most, word processing programs will not be able
- to read beyond the first Ctrl-Z.
-
- Well, then why would MS-DOS put in that little bugger in the first place?
- Unfortunately, the Ctrl-Z is a vestigial appendage and serves no useful
- purpose, except to give people who write little utilities like this
- something to do.
-
- Syntax: nocz filename > newname
-
- Enjoy...
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-
- Toad Hall Tweak, Oct 89
-
- Syntax: nocz [<] filename.typ [>output]
- Input may be a proper path:\filename or redirection.
- Output may be redirected as desired (default CON:).
-
- v1.1, Oct 89
- - Bumping working buffer to BIG...
- - Simplistic PSP command line parsing didn't properly handle
- DOS redirection/filter usage. Fixed.
- (Still doesn't work as a pipe, however.)
- - Added help (if no command line parms, no redirection).
- - No reason at all to release memory .. unless maybe for piping?
-
- v1.2, Oct 89
- - Replaces Ctrl Z's with an innocuous space.
- Cleaner code, file length doesn't change.
- If you don't want this function and wish the Ctrl Z's
- truly deleted, use v1.1.
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- Timing runs on a 122,000-byte file (with 1 Ctrl-Z towards the start):
- Version Seconds
- v1.0 34.72
- v1.1 10.72
- v1.2 10.43