TextTools Release 5
of 22-Sep-97
Copyright © 1996-97 by Rune Berg. All Rights Reserved.

Overview | Installation | Terms
Tools Summary | Changes
Important Notes | Feedback

tcols | tsort | trows | tuniq | tand | tjoin
first | last | lines | middle
eol | xtabs | itabs | tfinfo | dump
lsx | sum | acho | closure | create | numl
General Features | Support Utilities

 


OVERVIEW

TextTools is a collection of ASCII text filters and other goodies. Many of the programs process text-format tables, and offer powerful and unique functionality.

All TextTools programs run from the command line ("DOS prompt"), or from batch files.

TextTools comes with two sets of executables:

The two sets have equivalent functionality, but the Win32 executables offer higher capacity where relevant.


INSTALLATION

TextTools R5 is distributed as a file tt_r5.zip, containing:

      readme.txt
      doc_html/*.htm   documentation for the TextTools programs
      exe_dos/*.exe    the DOS executables
      exe_w32/*.exe    the Win32 console mode executables

To install the programs, extract (using pkzip 2.04g or equivalent) either set of executables (exe_dos/*.exe or exe_w32/*.exe) to a directory in your PATH. Or: create a new directory, extract the executables to that directory, and add that directory to your PATH.

All documentation is in the form of HTML files. To install the documentation, extract all the HTML files (doc_html/*.htm) to a directory on your harddisk. (Make sure you extract them to the same directory, or else the hyperlinks won't work.) To view the documentation, load the file tt_r5.htm into your browser (Netscape Navigator 2.0 or better, or Internet Explorer 2.0 or better.)


TERMS

All TextTools programs and documentation are Copyright © 1996-97 by Rune Berg. All Rights Reserved.

TextTools Release 5 is Freeware. It may be freely distributed and used for non-commercial purposes only. It may be included on Shareware/Freeware CD-ROM collections, though. It must not be modified in any way, and must be distributed in its entirety.

Please note that future TextTools releases may well be Shareware. (This will not affect older releases' status as Freeware.)

Disclaimer: Rune Berg disclaims all warranties as to this software and its documentation, whether express or implied, including without limitation any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, functionality or data integrity or protection. 


TOOLS SUMMARY

Programs for processing tables:

Programs for copying part of files:

Other text filters:

Miscellaneous:


CHANGES

General:

Program-specific:


IMPORTANT NOTES

The DOS executables run in real-mode, and don't use expanded or extended memory. Thus, some of the programs have limited capacity. If you're running Windows 95 or NT, use the Win32 console mode executables for greater capacity.

Due to (what I believe is) an NT pipe bug, I've made the Win32 console mode executables treat broken pipes as normal end-of-file situations when running on NT (only). This does not affect the DOS versions, or the Win32 console mode executables when running on Windows 95.

All included executables are debug builds, i.e. they're compiled with asserts etc., to help in catching bugs. This means they run a little slower than they really could.


FEEDBACK

Ok, hope you find these programs useful. Any feedback is much appreciated.

E-mail to:

Snail-mail to:

Cheers,
- Rune


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