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- Size (recs) CRC Version Author/Latest Issue Disk
- 4k (27) DDE8 1.3 Dave Ramsey 5/89 Z3COM4
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- 1- Syntax 2- Error Messages 3- Examples of Use
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- GF is a Generalized file Filter program designed to replace any character
- in a specified input file with any other character on a global basis.
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- Syntax: GF du:fn1 du:fn2 oldch newch
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- ... where du:fn1 is the input file spec;
- du:fn2 is the output file spec;
- oldchar is the search character; and
- newchar is the replacement character.,
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- If invoked with no arguments or the wrong number of arguments, GF will
- present a help screen to the user.
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- ^ --> convert to a control character (^M is a carriage return).
- ~ --> convert to lowercase (~M is an "m").
- \ --> signals a hexadecimal string.
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- GF will only recognize control characters specified with a '^' if they are
- from 01h to 1Ah (^A through ^Z). Other characters should be specified with
- the hex escape sequence. 'Trigger' characters (\, ^, ~) are replaced by
- repeating them twice on the command line.
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- Error Messages:
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- a. "Input file not found."
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- b. "Unable to open specified output file."
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- c. "Parsing error!"
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- d. "Incorrect number of arguments!"
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- Examples of Use:
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- a. A0>GF INFILE.TXT OUTFILE.TXT ^J ^M
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- - will convert all the linefeeds in INFILE.TXT to carriage returns in
- the file OUTFILE.TXT. (I've used it often in this mode to clean up
- documents prepared on Un*x systems since Un*x uses only a bare
- linefeed as a line terminator.)
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- b. A0>GF INFILE.TXT OUTFILE.TXT Z ~z
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- - will convert all uppercase Z's to lower case z's.
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- c. A0>GF INFILE.TXT OUTFILE.TXT /7F /0D
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- - will convert all ASCII delete characters to carriage returns