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- STRIPIT File Preparation Program
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- Tired of spending hours reformatting large files that you
- have downloaded from an online information service like Compu-
- Serve, ABA/net or Prodigy? Feeling guilty about making your
- secretary spend her lunch hour and then some stripping extra
- carriage returns from file that you extracted from your nifty new
- CD ROM drive? Similar frustrations drove me into coding this
- small utility.
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- STRIPIT will quickly transform a standard ASCII file into
- one suitable for use with most word-processors by removing any
- carriage returns that are followed by a character other than a
- space or another carriage. This means that if your file has a
- blank line seperating paragraphs or if the paragraphs start with
- an indent, you're in luck.
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- Conversely, if the file is set up so that every line starts
- off with a series of blank spaces on every line, like the docu-
- mentation for many shareware programs, you must first delete
- these leading spaces before filtering your program through STRI-
- PIT.
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- Using STRIPIT
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- STRIPT may be used interactively or operated solely from the
- command line. To operate the program interactively, please enter
- STRIPIT on the DOS command line followed by the ENTER or RETURN key.
- You will then be prompted for the file you wish to strip and the name
- of the file you wish to receive the information created by STRIPIT.
- You may include the full drive\pathname of either STRIPIT or the
- file you wish to strip if they are not in the current directory.
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- If you wish to operate the program from the command line, please
- use the following syntax:
- [drive][path]STRIPIT [drive1][path1]SOURCE [drive2][path2]DESTINATION
- where items in brackets are optional. SOURCE is the name of the file
- you wish to strip while destination is where the information will end
- up.
- IMPORTANT NOTE: When specifying both source and destination file on
- the command line, if the destination file exists, it will be overwritten!
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- Formatting tips
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- The easiest way to prepare your stripped file for use in a
- word-processing program is to start the application program and
- open your stripped file. Once the file is open it is a much
- simpler matter to reformat the file.
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- WordStar Users
- This program was originally designed to convert ASCII files
- pulled off a CD ROM drive into a format better suited to Word-
- Star.
- Once you have opened the file in document mode, press
- ^Q^Q^B. This will reformat the file one paragraph at a time
- until it reaches the end of the file.
- If the file has a series of spaces before each line, just
- open the file in non-document mode and turn on column mode. Mark
- off the block that you want to remove and delete it with ^KY.
- Your file is now ready for STRIPIT.
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- Registration
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- STRIPIT is being released as shareware to enable a wider
- audience to become exposed to it's benefits than would be posssi-
- ble using more traditional channels of distribution. The idea
- behind shareware is simple: if you like what you see, pay for it,
- if you don't, just don't use it. Feel free to pass around this
- evaluation copy of to friends, co-workers and other computer
- users on the following conditions:
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- 1) Documentation file must be included with program.
- 2) No amount may be charged for STRIPIT other than.
- a reasonable copy fee not to exceed $5.00.
- 3) If you have a REGISTERED copy, it may not be
- distributed.
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- If you like the program and would like to encourage me to
- code other utilities like STRIPIT, please register your copy. If
- you are tired of looking at the guilt screen after program is
- run, please register your copy. If you would like any technical
- support, please register your copy. If you would like to have
- STRIPIT personalized just for you, please register your copy. If
- you would like the C language source code to STRIPIT, please
- register your copy. If you would like to earn the undying appre-
- ciation of my son and wife, please register your copy. If you
- would like to keep a good Karma, please register your copy. If
- you're sick of reading all this drivel, register your copy and
- beat the rush.
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