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- 4. A 30 day money back, satisfaction guarantee.
- 5. Notification of the next new feature release of MUD.
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- As a registered user, you may reach us in the following ways:
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- 1. Write: John W. Hansen
- 211 Covington Square Drive
- Cary, NC 27513
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- Registration Information
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- This is the SHAREWARE version of MUD. You may register this
- version for $10.00. If you register you will receive a serialized
- and personalized copy.
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- Please make any checks payable to:
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- We appreciate your registration, and hope that MUD is of continu-
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- please tell us; if you are satisfied with MUD, please tell your
- friends and associates, and pass on to them your copy of the
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- Legal disclaimer:
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- JD Enterprises and its affiliated individuals hereby disclaim
- all warranties relating to this software, whether express or
- implied, including without limitation any implied warranties of
- merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. We will not
- be liable for any special, incidental, consequential, indirect or
- similar damages due to loss of data or any other reason, even if
- we or an agent of JD Enterprises has been advised of the
- possibility of such damages. In no event shall our liability
- for any damages ever exceed the price paid for the license to use
- software, regardless of the form of the claim. The person using
- the software bears all risk as to the quality and performance of
- the software.
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- Software License
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- The software license agreement is shown below.
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- MUD - Mac/Unix DOS translator 2.9a
- Copyright 1992, 1993 JD Enterprises
- All rights reserved.
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- You are free to use MUD on any single computer, provided:
- - no fee is charged for its use
- - it is not modified in any way
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- You are free to distribute the SHAREWARE version of MUD on your
- distribution disk provided
- - no fee is charged for its use, copying or distribution
- - it is not modified in any way
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-
- Using MUD
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- Using MUD is as simple as typing MUD at the DOS command prompt.
- A menu will appear and you will be prompted to enter information.
- MUD allows you to convert straight ASCII text file to various
- file formats. The menu screen below shows the file formats and
- the conversions that can be performed.
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- 1 - DOS -> Mac format| change CR/LF-> CR | hex 0D0A-> 0D
- 2 - DOS -> UNIX format| change CR/LF-> LF | hex 0D0A-> 0A
- 3 - UNIX-> DOS format| change LF -> CR/LF| hex 0A -> 0D0A
- 4 - UNIX-> Mac format| change LF -> CR | hex 0A -> 0D
- 5 - Mac -> UNIX format| change CR -> LF | hex 0D -> 0A
- 6 - Mac -> DOS format| change CR -> CR/LF| hex 0D -> 0D0A
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- 7 - Search and Replace function on both text or binary files
- 8 - Strip graphics characters (8 bit to 7 bit conversion)
- 9 - Remove blank lines (2 0D0A's in a row) for DOS file type only
- B - Convert tabs to blank spaces
- T - Convert blanks to tab (limited to 20 per tab)
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- A - Convert ASCII to EBCDIC
- E - Convert EBCDIC to ASCII
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- Q - QUIT
- H - Help
-
-
- What MUD will allow you to do is convert from one set of files to
- the other.
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- MUD will also do a character global search and replace. The
- search and replace string is limited to 128 total characters
- at one time. This means that the character string you want to
- search for cannot exceed 128 characters or the replace string
- cannot exceed 128 characters. This will work on text and binary
- files. If you use it on BINARY files make sure you make a backup
- of the file you are working on as the SEARCH and REPLACE may
- end up being a SEARCH and DESTROY. If you are confident working
- against a binary file make sure you replace the exact number
- of characters you are searching for. In many cases if you add
- or delete characters you will corrupt the file.
-
- As an example:
- We can change DOS 5.0's EDIT.COM to default to *.* instead of
- *.TXT when asking to open a file. The program that controls this
- is QBASIC.EXE. By running MUD against QBASIC.EXE and doing a
- search and replace we would respond to the following prompts as:
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- Find : *.TXT
- Replace : *.* note: add two blank spaces after 2nd *
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- In the REPLACE section we would have entered "*.* ". Notice the
- two blank spaces after the second *. This must be done in order
- to perserve the same file size. If this is not done EDIT.COM
- will hang your system and force a warm reboot.
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- You can enter unprintable characters at the FIND and REPLACE
- prompts simply by entering their decimal equivalent on the
- numeric keypad (if you have one). You must enter them from
- the keypad and not the numbers above the QWERTY keys.
-
- Example:
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- Suppose you want to replace all ESCAPE characters in a file
- with a NULL character. The ESCAPE character is represented
- in the ASCII table as 027 decimal. The NULL character is
- represented as 000 decimal. By doing this you are effectively
- removing the ESCAPE character from the file. This is how
- it can be done.
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- 1. Invoke MUD
- 2. Select menu item 7
- 3. Enter name of file to be changed
- 4. Enter name of new file (can be the same file name)
- 5. At the "FIND :" prompt you will enter the ESCAPE character
- by holding down the ALT key and type the decimal
- number of the ESCAPE character on the numeric keypad
- as "027", then release the ALT key. The cursor should not
- have moved at this point.
- 6. Hit the ENTER key to complete the FIND
- 7. At the "REPLACE :" prompt you will hold down the ALT key
- again and then on the numeric keypad enter "000" and release
- the ALT key. Again the cursor will not have moved and you can
- hit the ENTER key to complete the replace procedure.
- 8. The number of replacements will be displayed at bottom
- of the screen.
-
- Alternatively you could have just hit the ENTER key at the
- REPLACE prompt without entering anything and that would have
- removed all DEC 027 ESCAPE characters and make no replacement.
- The 'Remove blank lines (2 0D0A's in a row) for DOS file type only'
- option is specific to DOS file types only and only works when two
- carriage returns are next to each other. If you have a CR and then
- the next line a couple of spaces and again a CR so it appears to
- have a blank line this will not work because you really do not have
- a blank line - you have a line with 2 spaces, though of course they
- do not show on screen.
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- The Macintosh environment uses numerous special characters.
- These characters have a Hex value of 128 or greater and are seen by
- most text editors or wordprocessors as garbage. Use the 8 bit to
- 7 bit conversion option (8). This will strip out any characters that
- have these unusual or undesired characteristics. This option
- is most useful to remove characters such as ëï╟┼─╜, etc. When a
- MAC file moves to DOS a curly quote may look like ╜. This option
- will remove them. NOTE: The ╜ is not replaced with '.
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- Converting spaces to tabs and tabs to spaces may be necessary for
- certain programs. It is also useful for conserving space as you
- save 7 bytes when using tabs instead of spaces.
-
- The EBCDIC to ASCII and ASCII to EBCDIC conversion is generally done
- by whatever program does the download, but sometimes you may receive a
- file in the wrong format and there is no easy way to convert it. When
- the EBCDIC data file is moved down insure that it has correct blocking
- (mainframe talk for correct placement of CR\LF at end of every line).
- This is normally done when the file is moved down.
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- Thank you for registering this product if you are a registered
- user and if you are not, please consider doing so.
-
- John Hansen
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