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- Program: Depager
- Version: 1.1
- Author: George Spafford
- Date: February 15, 1992
-
- Purpose:
-
- Have you ever gotten a DOC file that had a form feed after every
- paragraph? Are you irritated at reformatting your text once you
- pull that DOS text file in that has all of those form feed characters
- in it (ASCII 12)? This program strips the FF characters out so you can
- format/print your text however you want to.
-
- Procedure:
-
- DEPAGER source.fil target.fil
-
- source.fil This is your master file.
- target.fil This is your destination file that has had the
- form feed characters stipped out. This can also
- be a device name such as PRN, LPT1, LPT2 etc.
-
- NOTE: There are not any screen writes during the process so
- be patient. A 720K file on my 286 took 25 seconds to
- process.
-
- The form feed characters are ASCII 12 or HEX 0x0C. They are the characters
- that look like a little man - so to speak. When your printer reads this
- character, it does a forms feed to the next page of paper. When a word
- processor reads this, it often assumes that this is a hard page break.
-
- History:
-
- 02/15/92 v1.1
- Guess what - if you code in C++ it is a smart thing to flush
- file buffers before you terminate your program!!! Sorry folks.
- The bug that was causing some file to be incompletely converted
- has been corrected.
-
- 12/02/91 v1.0
- Initial Release.
-
- The Fun Stuff:
-
- DEPAGER is distributed as shareware. If you find it useful, you should
- register it within 30 days of your initial use. Only by your registering
- this program can I continue to write specialized programs at a shareware
- price. This program is $5 per concurrently used copy. Checks or money orders
- can be sent to the following address. I always welcome comments as well.
-
- George Spafford
- 3001 Lakeshore Drive #329
- St. Joseph, MI 49085
-
- Data: Queued Access 19200-8-N-1 ANSI using an USR Dual Standard
- (616) 468-5026 FIDOnet: 1:2340/0 NEC/NC Site
- Sysop: Tim Akright Over 600MB Online.
-
-
- DEPAGER IS DISTRIBUTED AS IS. THE AUTHOR (GEORGE SPAFFORD) MAKES NO
- WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED
- TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE,
- WITH RESPECT TO THIS SOFTWARE AND DOCUMENTATION. IN NO EVENT SHALL
- THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFITS, LOST
- SAVINGS, OR ANY OTHER INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING
- OUT OF THE USE OF OR THE INABILITY TO USE THIS PROGRAM.
-