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STRIPIT File Preparation Program
Tired of spending hours reformatting large files that you
have downloaded from an online information service like Compu-
Serve, ABA/net or Prodigy? Feeling guilty about making your
secretary spend her lunch hour and then some stripping extra
carriage returns from file that you extracted from your nifty new
CD ROM drive? Similar frustrations drove me into coding this
small utility.
STRIPIT will quickly transform a standard ASCII file into
one suitable for use with most word-processors by removing any
carriage returns that are followed by a character other than a
space or another carriage. This means that if your file has a
blank line seperating paragraphs or if the paragraphs start with
an indent, you're in luck.
Conversely, if the file is set up so that every line starts
off with a series of blank spaces on every line, like the docu-
mentation for many shareware programs, you must first delete
these leading spaces before filtering your program through STRI-
PIT.
Using STRIPIT
STRIPT may be used interactively or operated solely from the
command line. To operate the program interactively, please enter
STRIPIT on the DOS command line followed by the ENTER or RETURN key.
You will then be prompted for the file you wish to strip and the name
of the file you wish to receive the information created by STRIPIT.
You may include the full drive\pathname of either STRIPIT or the
file you wish to strip if they are not in the current directory.
If you wish to operate the program from the command line, please
use the following syntax:
[drive][path]STRIPIT [drive1][path1]SOURCE [drive2][path2]DESTINATION
where items in brackets are optional. SOURCE is the name of the file
you wish to strip while destination is where the information will end
up.
IMPORTANT NOTE: When specifying both source and destination file on
the command line, if the destination file exists, it will be overwritten!
Formatting tips
The easiest way to prepare your stripped file for use in a
word-processing program is to start the application program and
open your stripped file. Once the file is open it is a much
simpler matter to reformat the file.
WordStar Users
This program was originally designed to convert ASCII files
pulled off a CD ROM drive into a format better suited to Word-
Star.
Once you have opened the file in document mode, press
^Q^Q^B. This will reformat the file one paragraph at a time
until it reaches the end of the file.
If the file has a series of spaces before each line, just
open the file in non-document mode and turn on column mode. Mark
off the block that you want to remove and delete it with ^KY.
Your file is now ready for STRIPIT.
Registration
STRIPIT is being released as shareware to enable a wider
audience to become exposed to it's benefits than would be posssi-
ble using more traditional channels of distribution. The idea
behind shareware is simple: if you like what you see, pay for it,
if you don't, just don't use it. Feel free to pass around this
evaluation copy of to friends, co-workers and other computer
users on the following conditions:
1) Documentation file must be included with program.
2) No amount may be charged for STRIPIT other than.
a reasonable copy fee not to exceed $5.00.
3) If you have a REGISTERED copy, it may not be
distributed.
If you like the program and would like to encourage me to
code other utilities like STRIPIT, please register your copy. If
you are tired of looking at the guilt screen after program is
run, please register your copy. If you would like any technical
support, please register your copy. If you would like to have
STRIPIT personalized just for you, please register your copy. If
you would like the C language source code to STRIPIT, please
register your copy. If you would like to earn the undying appre-
ciation of my son and wife, please register your copy. If you
would like to keep a good Karma, please register your copy. If
you're sick of reading all this drivel, register your copy and
beat the rush.