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- >QUOTE.EXE is a small, fast liitle program that will read in an ASCII text
- >file and format the output into another file with the ">" marks everyone
- >is so fond of when replying to BBS messages. It is intended for use with
- >COMMO 4.53, but it can be used by any terminal program that can execute a
- >shell program from a macro.
- >
- >It is conceptually based on the TRUNC12.ZIP program distributed by Mr.
- >Jim Goodenough of Santa Clara, California. When I first used COMMO, I
- >was impressed by the speed and size of it. I had previously used
- >Telemate, and the difference was startling. One of the features I
- >missed however, was the ability to automatically "quote" messages.
- >TRUNC12 answered this need, but it was unfortunately written in
- >compiled BASIC, had it's file names hard-coded into the program,
- >and was somewhat slow.
- >
- >QUOTE is written in Turbo C. It allows you to invoke it with your
- >own file names or rely on it's default selections. It also does not
- >offer fancy "quoting" characters. You have your choice, as long as
- >it is ">". I found that many BBS programs would filter out high-ascii
- >characters as line noise when used with TRUNC.
- >
- >To use QUOTE, you should write a screen image to disk as a file, invoke
- >your favorite editor, save the file, run it through QUOTE and use
- >ASCII upload to send the resultant file back. Like magic, the quote
- >marks appear!
- >
- >For COMMO, install the following lines in your COMMO.MAC file:
-
- {nf9} {screen y,quote.in} {}
- {nf0} {exec ted quote.in}
- {exec quote}
- {asciiup quote.out,:}
- {}
-
- >Pressing F9 will capture the message from your screen into file QUOTE.IN.
- >You then start the reply process on the remote BBS and press F10. COMMO
- >will execute the editor (I use TED.COM from PC Magazine; use what you wish)
- >allowing you to trim out the extra lines you do not wish quoted. When you
- >exit the editor, QUOTE will process the file and return to COMMO. COMMO
- >will then ASCII upload the processed file to the BBS. It's quite fast.
- >
- >If you do not use COMMO, you can call QUOTE any way you wish. You can
- >invoke the program stand-alone as:
-
- QUOTE INFILE.EXT OUTFILE.EXT
-
- >...and create whatever macro your terminal program needs to automate this.
- >
- >As stated, QUOTE is small fast and dirty. It works. Enjoy it.
- >
- >Electrik Kool Aid
- >aka Don Kinstler
- >Binghamton, NY
- >May 23, 1991