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- 02/01/93 - the RySoft familiy of MSDOS utilities
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- TRIKSTER - A test data generator for text files
- Available now! $25.00 registration
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- This utility allows you to manipulate text files containing data. It is
- just the thing for quickly creating test data for QAing chnages.
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- You can make these kinds of changes to text files:
- 1. Add columns.
- 2. Delete columns.
- 3. Overlay new data into existing columns.
- 4. Reorder columns.
- 5. Resize the records:
- a. Shorten or lengthen records.
- b. Change a variable length text file to fixed length.
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- Data that is added to a file can be derived from a number of sources. A
- specific character or string pattern can be specified, a file can be
- specified containing a series of records that will be used sequentially,
- or specify an alphanumeric sequence (starting value and increment size).
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- SURGEON - A file slicer dicer
- Available now! $25.00 registration
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- This utility allows you to dissect files and reassemble them. This works
- like cut, copy and paste in your word processor, but from the command line.
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- You specify exact offsets and lengths of pieces of the file that you want
- extracted into a clipboard file. This clipboard file can then be pasted into
- another file. Paste operations can insert data, moving the existing data to
- make room, or it can overlay existing data, replacing it.
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- This is useful anytime you are investigating or modifiing file structures
- at a low level in ways that the creating program does not allow.
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- Some examples of use:
- 1. Extracting subsets of information from large database files.
- 2. Rearranging / Creating test data.
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- This utility does require a knowledge of the internal format of the file
- to be operated on, and is not for casual users. Sections of the file are
- identified by exact offset in the file and the length of each piece.
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- XVERT - A generic file conversion utility
- Available soon! $35.00 registration
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- This utility allows you to convert the contents and internal format of
- the data in any binary MSDOS file into any other desired internal format
- or arrangement. During this process the fields of an existing database
- file can be rearranged and/or reformatted.
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- You can:
- 1. Change any fields datatype to any other compatible internal format.
- i.e. int to long, int to string, string to int, char to byte, string
- to boolean, float to int, float to IEEE-extended, ASCIIZ string
- fields to Pascal Style strings, and any other conversion that
- you can think of.
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- 2. Copy only selected fields from the input to the output.
- 3. Select records to be copied based on fields within each record.
- 4. Convert fixed fielded text files to record oriented binary files.
- Great for use with TRIKSTER.
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- XLIST - A generic file list utility
- Available soon! $35.00 registration
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- This utility allows you to do quick flexible reports from any format
- flat file. You can select the records and fields that you want displayed.
- You can specify ranges of records to use for the report. You can specify
- field widths, field headers, field formatting, page numbering, report
- headings.
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- This is not a comprehensive reporting utility, but there are many
- occasions when all of the features (and size) of a full blown generic
- reporting utility would be a waste. XLIST is just right in for many of
- these situations.
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- XDUMP - A hex dump utility
- Available Now! Free with any of the above!
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- This utility reads any MSDOS file and produces formatted hex dump listings
- on the screen, or to a file or printer. You can specify many options for how
- the output is formatted. It can be shown as Bytes, Words, Longs. Fast and
- flexible, great adjunct for SURGEON, XVERT, XLIST or any file investigations.
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