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- AddTabs (version 1.1) Documentation
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- AddTabs will take a text file and replace a series of spaces of a given
- length with a single tab. This is useful for converting lines of tabular
- data (which have been padded with spaces instead of using tabs) to true
- tab delimited data for import to a data base or for easier manipulation in
- page layout programs (easier to reformat when not using monospaced fonts).
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- You must specify the maximum number of spaces to allow. If you specify 2,
- any series of spaces 3 or greater will be replaced by one tab. All trailing
- spaces will automatically be removed, but you have the option of replacing
- leading spaces with tabs (if they total greater than the maximum allowable
- spaces), or strip all leading spaces. If you choose 255 as the maximum
- allowable spaces and strip leading spaces, all leading and trailing spaces
- will be stripped. You also have the option of removing all characters with
- ASCII values less than 9.
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- Limitations:
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- 1. Line length is limited to 255 characters. Longer lines will be truncated.
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- 2. Only files tagged as TEXT can be processed.
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- Changes for version 1.1:
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- 1. Increased the size of the read buffer to improve performance.
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- 2. Added error handling. No more bombs when disk fills.
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- Files Included:
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- 1. AddTabs 1.1 - Compiled application
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- 2. AddTabs 1.1 Docs - This file
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- If you like the program, have any questions about its operation, or find
- any bugs, please let me know. I can be reached through any the following
- addresses:
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- COMPUSERVE: 70167,3444 or 72245,1553 - GENIE: JWIND - MCIMAIL: JWIND
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