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- This stack will combine all TEXT (ASCII) files contained within the top
- or all levels of a folder of your choosing. There are faster file
- concatenators available (e.g., BBEdit) but you may find this utility
- useful when you simply want to combine all text files within a folder.
- It is also useful if you wish to specify the order of the files by
- some criterion such as creation date instead of the normal alphabetical
- order. You can even include an index of the combined files. A less
- flexible but much speedier method is described after the default
- method.
-
- Before selecting "Combine Files..." from the Combine menu, you can:
-
- **1) Adjust the primary and secondary sorting order of the files, i.e.,
- by international alphabetical order, creation or last modified date or
- time, file size, or Creator type, each in ascending or descending order
- (1°–Sort and 2°–Sort menus).
-
- **2) Specify a particular, or all, Creator type(s) for files of type
- “TEXT” to be included in the combined file (click on displayed 4-letter
- code or select "Specify Input Creator…" from File menu).
-
- **3) Specify Creator type preference for the output “TEXT” file (click
- on displayed 4-letter code or select "Specify Output Creator…" from
- File menu).
-
- **4) Specify whether to concatenate files as they are or let the stack
- “Add File Index and Delimiters” (Combine menu or check box button).
- The latter option will add a sorted file list to the start of the
- combined file. It will also precede the text from each individual
- file with a file delimiter (“$$>”), the file name, and two returns.
-
- **5) Specify whether or not to include all files in any subfolders
- (Combine menu or check box button).
-
- **6) Specify dates to include by date created or modified (click on
- Before/After buttons to toggle between the two and click on the date to
- reset or remove displayed date).
-
- Once options are set, select “Combine Files...” from the Combine menu
- (or click on arrow button) and choose a folder containing text files
- to combine from the "choose" dialog (note: file names will not be
- visible). Before combining, File Combiner will compute an estimate of
- the combined text file size. At this point you can either specify the
- output file name and destination or cancel.
-
- The stack will remember your settings, and automatically warn you if you
- do not have sufficient disk space.
-
- Choose "Speedy Combine..." from the Combine menu (or click the arrow
- button with the option key depressed) if you simply want to
- combine ALL text files in a folder of your choosing which has NO
- subfolders. The ordering of the text will be restricted to the one
- determined by an alphabetical listing of the file names, but the
- output creator and "Add file delimiters" settings will be recognized.
- In the latter case, delimiters consist of a line of text with the
- respective file name preceding the text from each file combined.
-
- Version History:
-
- .90 11/16/92 (Created 11/14/92): Should work, but still have some frills
- to add.
-
- .91 11/19/92 Changed the combination of externals used, and added button
- interface. New features include the ability to specify cut-off dates for
- creation or last modified file dates. Also can now optionally include
- files contained in subfolders.
-
- .92 5/21/93 Fixed some script problems introduced with .91 that
- prevented specification of creator types. (Thanks to Rane Curl for
- finding these.)
-
- .93 9/5/93 Added the new "speedy" file combining method. It is much
- faster, albeit less flexible, than the default method because it uses
- a previously overlooked freeware xcmd written in 1988 by Dave Fry.