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- File Description Cleaner v1.2 Documentation
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- Legal Stuff
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- The author has taken every precaution to ensure that no harm or damage
- will occur on systems running RG-FDC v1.2. However, he cannot be
- responsible for any damages or other losses suffered as a result of running
- RG-FDC v1.2 on your system. The user assumes full responsibility for
- the proper use of this program, whether damage occurs as a fault of
- operator error or software error.
-
- NO WARRANTIES ARE IMPLIED OR EXPRESSLY STATED.
-
- RG-FDC v1.2 and this documentation are copyrighted materials of Jack
- Brahce. All rights to these materials are reserved, and are protected
- under United States and International Copyright Laws. No part of these
- materials may be reproduced or modified in any way.
-
- Use of RG-FDC constitutes acceptance of the stated terms and conditions.
-
- RG-FDC is NOT FREEWARE. It is distributed under the concept of ShareWare.
- Users are allowed to try this program in its unregistered state for 30 days
- before paying for and registering with the author. If, after 30 days, you
- decide that RG-FDC performs to your expectations, you are required by
- law to pay for and register your copy with the author. If the software does
- not meet your needs, and you do not plan on registering with the author
- after your 30 day trial period, you are to cease usage of RG-FDC. Continued
- use beyond the authorized evaluation period requires payment of the
- registration fee in full. Besides, it's only five bucks!
-
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- What is RG File Description Cleaner?
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-
- Do you ever get tired of people who upload files with descriptions in
- all caps, or all lowers? Some people use a weird mix of caps and lowers. It
- can really make a mess of your file directories. Renegade File Description
- Cleaner will allow you to choose between several different standardized file
- descriptions and ensure that your file bases are kept in that format. The
- easiest way to use RG-FDC is to put it in your nightly events.
-
- Renegade File Description Cleaner v1.2 is compiled with Turbo C++ and
- Turbo Assembler. It is written in C and Assembly for optimum speed and
- performance. RG-FDC v1.2 is fully network/multinode compatible, as well as
- Desqview friendly.
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- How to use RG File Description Cleaner:
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- Renegade File Description Cleaner v1.2 has 4 formats. You must choose
- one of the four (-c, -l, -n, -u).
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- ___________________________________________________________________________
- 1) RG-FDC -c The recommended "clean" mode. All words will start with
- capital letters and have lower case following. Also,
- version numbers (v1.2) will have a lower case v.
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- EXAMPLE:
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- This is the file description *TEST*
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- becomes:
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- This Is The File Description *Test*
- ___________________________________________________________________________
- 2) RG-FDC -l Makes all letters lower case.
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- EXAMPLE:
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- This is the file description *TEST*
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- becomes:
-
- this is the file description *test*
- ___________________________________________________________________________
- 3) RG-FDC -n Makes the first letter of the first word in each sentence
- upper case. All other letters are lower case. This mode
- attempts to create "normal" english. However, it is not
- entirely reliable, as it must rely on puncuation. If the
- puncuation is not correct (which it often isn't) then the
- sentence will not be 100% correct.
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- EXAMPLE:
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- This is the file description *TEST*. test #2.
-
- becomes:
-
- This is the file description *test*. Test #2.
- ___________________________________________________________________________
- 4) RG-FDC -u Makes all letters upper case.
-
- EXAMPLE:
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- This is the file description *TEST*
-
- becomes:
-
- THIS IS THE FILE DESCRIPTION *TEST*
- ___________________________________________________________________________
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- There are two optional switches that can be added in conjunction with
- the chosen format (-f, -q). You may use one, both or neither.
-
- RG-FDC -c -f -f Activates fast mode. Fast mode means that RG-FDC
- uses your existing *.dir files for all operations.
- No backup files are created. Without -f, your old
- *.dir files are renamed to *.fdc and new "cleaned"
- *.dir files are created. If anything goes wrong,
- you can rename the old *.fdc files.
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- RG-FDC -c -q -q Activates quiet mode. This means that the user will
- not see the descriptions on the screen as they are
- "cleaned". Only a base number will be displayed to
- give an indication of progress.
-
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- What about special words?
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-
- A new feature in version v1.2 is RG-FDC.CAP. This is a text file
- list of all words that you would like to have in all capital letters.
- Examples are "words" such as VGA, DOS, XXX, and so on. You may add as
- many of these to the file, 1 per line, as you desire (or as much as your
- computer memory can handle). RG-FDC.CAP is not case sensitive. VGA can
- be included as vga, Vga, VGA...
-
- Keep in mind that the more special words you add to this file, the
- longer it will take RG-FDC to process your file descriptions. RG-FDC.CAP
- must not be renamed, and needs to be located in your main BBS directory with
- RG-FDC.EXE. If you do not want any special words, delete RG-FDC.CAP. This
- feature is only active in -c, -l, & -n modes. Also, try to prioritize the
- special words in RG-FDC.CAP with the most frequently used words at the top.
- This will slightly speed up the time it takes to process your file bases.
- If there is enough interest in this program (i.e. if I get several
- registrations) I will recode this feature with faster routines.
-
- EXAMPLE:
-
- RG-FDC.CAP contains bbs
- vga
- new
-
- This is a new test of a vga bbs utility.
-
- becomes
-
- This is a NEW test of a VGA BBS utility.
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- How do I register RG-FDC ?
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-
- Simply fill out register.frm which is included in this archive, and
- mail it along with $5 to
-
- Jack Brahce
- PO Box 242
- Davison, MI 48423
-
-
- Where do I get technical support, current versions, other Quality
- Renegade utilities or report suggestions/bugs?
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- Call
- The Shark's Mouth
- 1-313-658-1110
- Fido 1:2240/108
- 1200-19200 USR 14.4 Dual Standard
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- FREQ "rg-fdc" for the latest File Description Cleaner.
- FREQ "qfile" for the lastet Quality File Lister.
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- New users have access to download my newest utilities on their
- first call.
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