Featured in Issue 009 of Open Mike will be the following articles:
Feature Article
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XFCN Mania II brings you three useful XFCNs that you can install into your MPToolBox. The following XFCNs are included: CRC returns a CRC value for a given piece of text. You can use a CRC to compare two different pieces of text to see if they are identical. ROT13 will encrypt or decrypt a piece of text, using the popular ROT13 technique. CharCount will return the number of times the specified character appears in a given piece of text.
Hacker's Hangout
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Have you ever needed to format a piece of text to a certain column width? Some services need carriage returns at the end of each line. Give a text file to this hack and it will create a formatted text file of whatever column width you'd like.
Question & Answer
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We get questions, and here is our attempt to answer them. If you are looking for a particular solution to a particular problem, this is a good place to begin your search.
Tips and Tricks
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Our writers and readers have come up with a collection of useful tips and tricks. We begin highlighting these in this new column. If you have a tip or trick you'd like to contribute, contact us via one of our email addresses and ask for more information.