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- TAG.EXE 6/1/91 5008 bytes (Consolidated utilities & .BAT)
- 6/8/91 Added search for TAGLINES.KEY along current path
- if not in current directory.
- 10/27/91 Combined QWK and TAG and added generic search
- with phone number removal. This runs faster,
- since MESSAGES.DAT does not have to be expanded
- first. (Sorry to those who download text, will
- do that version later) Program is now "QTAG".
-
- Quite often when reading the conference mail, the taglines are
- more interesting than some of the messages. Rather than continue
- to collect the taglines manually, the "TAG" program will extract,
- sort, remove any duplicates and save them, automatically.
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- Referenced Tagline files: QTAG, QWK, QSORT, DUP, ASC8toWP
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- QTAG Extracts all taglines from the QWK MESSAGES.DAT file. It then
- sorts them, removes duplicates and headers, then lists them to
- an output file. ie.
- QTAG ; Lists taglines from MESSAGES.DAT on CON
- QTAG tag ; Saves MESSAGES.DAT taglines in file TAG
- QTAG file.dat tag ; Saves QWK file file.dat taglines in TAG
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- QWK Expands MESSAGES.DAT (or REP RBBS.MSG) files to text.
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- QSORT - is a Quicksort that can ignore case with the compare starting
- at an optionally given column. (max entries is up to 9k lines
- depending on avail. memory) Type "QSORT" for help.
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- DUP - removes duplicates in a sorted list. If no output file is
- given the output goes to the console. The compare can be
- limited to a range by col and len. If that is done, the file
- must have been sorted by that field. Switches are available
- to ignore case, ignore delimiters (-a) (ie "HI, There..." is
- equal to "Hi there!") or what ever. Type "DUP" for help.
-
- ASC8toWP
- Converts eight bit ASCII to WP5.1 format. If a HEADER.WP5 file
- is present in the current set path, it will be used instead of
- the defaults. HEADER.WP5 is an WP5.0 or WP5.1 header file that
- should be empty except for margin, tag, and font settings. The
- program ASC8toWP translates all characters except for 9 (tab),
- 10 (linefeed), 12 (form feed) and 13 (carriage returns). Form
- feeds are converted by WP. Carriage returns are skipped. Tabs
- are converted. Line feeds are converted to hard returns.
- Note: WP doesn't translate the characters #00 through #31. It
- also sometimes seems to have problems translating lines
- ending in tabs or spaces.
-
- Used as: ( Could be a batch file )
- >PKUNZIP rbbs.QWK MESSAGES.DAT ; expand file
- >QTAG tags.tmp ; extract taglines
- >edit tags.tmp ; remove unwanted taglines
- >COPY TAGS.OLD+tags.tmp tags.new ; add old to new tags
- >QSORT tags.new taglines ; sort combimed list
- >DEL tags.* ; delete old files
- >DUP taglines TAGS.OLD -a ; remove duplicates
- >DEL taglines ; clean up
-
- > At some point you may wish to further edit the taglines
- >ASC8toWP TAGS.OLD TAGS.WP5 ; allow printing by WP
- >COPY TAGS.OLD TAGLINES.MR ; convert to SLMR format
- etc..
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