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BRUCE608.DOC 1 Revised: 08-31-96
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Contact information
For the following routines: AV, BFIND, COPSINCE, DATES, DIRCOMP, DIRTOTAL,
EUMAIL, FILL, FIXTEXT, FORTUNE, HTMSTRIP, PAGINATE, READINIT, READMAKE-created
files, and TXTABLE:
Bruce Guthrie
Wayne Software
113 Sheffield St.
Silver Spring, MD 20910
fax: (301) 588-8986
e-mail: bguthrie@nmaa.org
http://hjs.geol.uib.no/guthrie/
For the following routines: CHANGE, CONVERT, FILUPDAT, READ, and READY:
Bruce Guthrie
Room H-4885
U.S. Dept of Commerce/ESA/STAT-USA
Washington, DC 20230
fax: (202) 482-2164
voice: (202) 482-3234
e-mail: bguthrie@doc.gov
Please provide an Internet e-mail address on all correspondence.
Since these programs are typically "freeware" (with the exception of people
trying to make money from them instead of me), they generate maybe $100/year in
revenue for me. As such, my ability to afford wonderful customer support is
somewhat restricted. Please do not leave messages saying "Call me long
distance". Also, please be specific about what problems you encounter and
include command-line inputs as well as any control or INI files that you're
using.
WIN/NT AND WIN95 USERS: All of these programs are DOS applications. This means
that they expect 8.3 filenames, short paths, etc. If you use long paths or
illegal characters in your file names or whatever, these programs may not work
for you. This is not a "bug" in the software. That's just the way DOS apps
are.
Standard disclaimer in this society: Wayne Software disclaims all warranties as
to this software, whether express or implied, including without limitation any
implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose,
functionality, data integrity or protection.
BRUCE608.DOC 2 Revised: 08-31-96
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Introduction
This documentation provides some overview information on a number of utilities.
All programs described herein were written by Bruce Guthrie. Most are
distributed with a Wayne Software copyright. Others were written for the U.S.
Department of Commerce. All are free for use provided relevant documentation is
kept with the programs, no changes are made to the programs or documentation,
and they are not bundled with commercial programs or charged for separately.
CHANGE, CONVERT, FILUPDAT, READ, and READY are excluded from the
commercial-packaging restriction. These programs are owned by the U.S.
Department of Commerce and may be re-distributed without restriction.
People who need to bundle AV, BFIND, COPSINCE, DATES, DIRCOMP, DIRTOTAL, EUMAIL,
FILL, FIXTEXT, FORTUNE, HTMSTRIP, PAGINATE, READINIT, or TXTABLE in commercial
packages other than shareware/freeware collections must pay a $50 registration
fee to "Wayne Software" at the following address. READMAKE-created files are
also subject to this limitation. I don't expect to make any money from these
utilities but I don't want others to sell them instead.
This collection of utilities were compiled using Microsoft's Visual BASIC for
DOS 1.0 compiler. Thomas G. Hanlin III's excellent PBClone routines, release
2.3, provided additional functionality. Since Tom has dropped support for his
PBClone routines, some things will are simply not possible for me to do so don't
push! The basic routines should be able to be maintained indefinitely as long
as DOS continues to exist; we'll see. Keep in mind that they are DOS-based
routines so forget long Win95 file names and such. I keep thinking that I
should be doing Windows programming but it's hard to get psyched up for that
when you think of Windows as a computer virus.
Documentation provided in appropriate ZIP files:
* routine.DOC: Each utility is separately described in a like-named *.DOC file.
* FILE_ID.DIZ: Standard Description In Zip file.
* BRUCEymm.DOC: This file serves to summarize all of the various utilities.
The "ymm" indicates the release date in year/month format. "601" means
1996, first month (Jan 1996).
* BRUCEINI.DOC: Most of the routines have defaults that can altered by using
initialization files (inifiles). These are referenced in the regular
documentation and further described here. (One thing about *.INI files; if
you don't have one, it's in your interests to specify the "/-I" parameter.
Otherwise, the program searches your entire DOS path looking for the file.)
* BRUCEHEX.DOC: Many of the routines allow you to enter parameters as either
hexadecimal or decimal strings. This is referenced in the regular
documentation and further described here.
All program documentation was created using a text editor (PE2). The
PAGINATE command (see below) was used to justify the text and create
titles, page breaks, and (where provided) indexes.
Beta testers and suggestions are always appreciated. Contact me at
bguthrie@nmaa.org Note that all beta releases are done via e-mail so if your
gateway can't handle some pretty big mail attachments, you definitely do NOT
want to be a beta tester for me! Modifications that are not of mainstream use
can be contracted for.
BRUCE608.DOC 3 Revised: 08-31-96
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Finding the programs--Current version is 607
The utilities are uploaded with a ZIP name that includes the year and month of
the release in a "ymm" format ("607" is the July 1996 version). The files are
posted directly by the author to two places. The following Web site, provided
by Hans Schrader, has the current versions of *all* programs:
http://hjs.geol.uib.no/guthrie/
Major revisions are directly posted by the author to the following:
* Simtel (Coast-To-Coast): ftp.coast.net (http://www.coast.net/Simtel)
* Simtel (Keith Petersen): ftp.simtel.net (http://www.simtel.net/simtel.net)
* ZDI Software Library: No idea where that is!
Simtel locations and versions
http://www.coast.net/SimTel/msdos/ ftp://ftp.simtel.net/simtelnet/msdos/
..arcutil/ ..arcutils/
av607.zip Archive View: Free ZIP etc directory viewer
..batutil/ ..batchutl/
dates607.zip Warns you in advance of birthdays etc
fortn608.zip Fine-tunes DOS FOR command w/options
..dirutil/ ..dirutl/
cops608.zip Copies files modified since given date
dirco608.zip Updates files based on source directory
dirto607.zip Directory lister and totaller
filup607.zip Copy updated files based on a control list
..diskutil/ ..diskutil/
fill608.zip Stuffs as many files as possible on disk
..offline/ ..mailnews/
eumal607.zip Eudora utility for nicknames, boxes
..spredsht/ ..spredsht/
convr607.zip Convert dBase, ASCII-delim, fixed, 1-2-3
..textutil/ ..txtutl/
bfind607.zip Boolean FIND command (BFIND BEGIN & END)
chang608.zip Change strings in text/binary files
fixtx607.zip Translate text file characters en masse
htmst608.zip Reprocesses HTML pages for humans to read
pagin607.zip Paginates text (indexes, sorts, tables)
read607.zip Free viewer, also make any text