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News on TSFLTC, More text-file filters in reverse order
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University of Vaasa, Finland, SUN SPARCstation IPX garbo.uwasa.fi
has a large collection of PD and shareware PC programs available by
anonymous ftp and mail server. The file /pc/ts/0news-ts contains
news about the TS-programs in the /pc/ts directory (in reverse
order). This text, which you now have, is an extract from the
0news-ts file.
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Prof. Timo Salmi Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi BBS +(358)-61-3170972; FIN-65101, Finland
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Sat 12-Feb-94: I have updated my additional text-file filters for
binary and text files to be garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfltc16.zip by
adding a /f switch (force overwrite if source = destination) to
DETAB.EXE "Expand tabs properly into blanks"
Fri 25-Dec-92: Updated my third filter collection. It is now
garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tstsfltc15.zip.
Added
DUMP.EXE "Decimal, hexadecimal, ascii dump"
COL.EXE "Columnize a text file"
UNDUMP.EXE "Convert decimals to ascii chars"
Thu 26-Nov-92: I have upgraded my third filter collection to be
garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfltc14.zip.
The program CUT.EXE "Extract or delete text columns" has been
updated. Added a /s switch for optionally suppressing empty lines.
A have included a new program CUTW.EXE "Extract or delete text by
words". It has several convenient features like defining the word
delimiters, option to start from the end of the line, optional
suppression of empty lines, and multiple ranges.
Added FILE_ID.DIZ "Brief characterization of TSFLTC". Some BBS
systems scan for a FILE_ID.DIZ in uploaded packages and if found use
its contents as the description in their annotated file list.
Sat 28-Mar-92: I have updated my third filter collection making it
garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfltc13.zip by adding ROT13.EXE which rotates
ascii text by 13 positions. This is often used as an elementary
encryption technique for public but somehow sensitive texts.
ROT13.EXE works both ways because the method is transitive. It
rotates unrotated text and unrotates rotated text. My version of
ROT13.EXE is "clever" in the sense that it can detect redirection,
and thus if you don't direct any input to it, it will give you the
instructions.
Thu 30-Jan-92: I have updated to garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfltc12.zip.
It is a futher collection of my filters that you can customize
yourself. The filter DETAB.EXE for filtering tabs now has the
following enhancements:
- A new optional keep switch (/k) to make the date/time stamp of the
destination file the same as that of the source text file.
- To allow the source text file and the destination file be the
same. In other words the programs can now make the conversion
without forcing you to produce new files with names different from
the original.
- The programs first test whether the source file is a proper text
file with MsDos #13#10 eolns, no special characters (#0..#6, #8,
#11, #14..#25, #28..#31), and no lines exceeding 254 characters in
length. If not the conversion will not be attempted.
Sat 17-Aug-91: The inkjet printer I am using at office does not have
an adequate NLQ option for quality printing so I decided to program
a simple but useful filter REP.EXE which repeats each line of a text
file three times (by default). The filter also can but in a left
margin, and send preamble and postamble escape sequences. The filter
is part of my updated filter package /pc/ts/tsfltc11.arc.