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- University of Vaasa, Finland, MIPS R2030 workstation garbo.uwasa.fi
- has a large collection of PD and shareware PC programs available by
- anonymous ftp. The file /pc/ts/0news-ts contains news about the
- TS-programs in the /pc/ts directory (in reverse order). The first
- half of this text, which you now have, is an edited extract from the
- 0news-ts file.
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- Prof. Timo Salmi
- Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.87.1
- School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
- Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun
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- Wed 7-Aug-91: I have two user configurable filters FILTXT.EXE for
- text files, and FILBIN.EXE for binary files. Both take their cues
- from a .xlt translation file, which you can edit suit your task. The
- format of the .xlt file is eg
- 10
- 13 10
- for converting Unix end-of-lines to MsDos eols with FILBIN.EXE.
- Both these programs have their limitations, however. FILTXT can
- only handle text files. Neither the original nor the filtered rows
- may exceed 255 characters. Furthermore, it can't read a file past an
- ascii 26 (eof) character.
- FILBIN.EXE is limited by the fact that the from-translation may
- only contain one character. FILBIN.EXE cannot handle eg
- 13 10
- 10
- A few users have approached me about this asking for a remedy, for
- example, to be able to convert word-processor files.
- I have now programmed a more versatile filter FILGEN.EXE, which
- lifts this limitation. It is included in an updated filter package
- /pc/ts/tsfltb14.arc. The usage of this new filter is Unix like:
- FILGEN [TranslationTableFile] [/s] < InputFile > OutputFile The
- translation table defaults to filgen.xlt and the program looks for
- this file from the current directory, and then through the path.
-