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- Hello,
-
- You have in your possession a copy of the Van Nuys TOOLKIT plus
- some interesting other tools which I built for my own
- convienence. These tools are donated to the public domain by
- me for non-profit distribution and use.
-
- The source is BDS C 1.5 version compatable. You should have the source
- for all the tools, my version of WILDEXP, my version of DIO.C, my
- BDSCIO.H, and my DIO.H. The source has been formatted using the
- included tools CB and CASE. I prefer to use BEGIN/END instead of {
- and }. I also prefer to have C keywords in uppercase. Defines in
- my BDSCIO.H take care of this convention.
-
- I have included C.COM. This extracts the compile instructions
- from the named .C file and builds a CP/M submit file on the A:
- disk. To get started you should put cc1.com, cc2.com, clink.com,
- c.com, bdscio.h, dio.h, dio.c and wildexp.c on a disk.
-
- Do a:
-
- C DIO
- then a:
- C WILDEXP
-
- This should compile these libraries into DIO.CRL and WILDEXP.CRL.
-
- Then you can compile the various tools by bringing in the source
- and repeating the process. If there is any serious problem with the
- toolkit, it is that they take up about 1/2 megabyte for all the
- .COM files. It is much better if you have a a hard disk. Still,
- you can pick and chose which tools you are likely to use the most and
- just keep them in order to keep the storage down.
-
- Use HELP for assistance. TOOLKIT.HLP contain information on
- redirection and pipe options
-
- I have used these tools a great deal and hope that they are
- useful to others as well. If you like them let me know. If you
- don't like them don't bother. After you are getting them free.
-
- As a start, put together LS and 2UP first. Then try:
-
- LS *.* | 2UP -N5L20W
-
- You should get a nice column sorted directory. Try:
-
- LS *.* | 2UP -N5L20W +file
-
- And it will got to both the file and the screen.
-
- Good Luck and Best Wishes,
-
- Gene Mallory
- 5656 Buffalo Ave.
- Van Nuys, CA 91401
- (818) 577 9363 (work)
- (818) 988 3975 (home)