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- Enclosed are:
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- column_set.MOD - BENCHMARK Modula-2 source code for the column_set executable.
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- column_set.doc - an excuse sheet for foisting this program on an unsuspecting
- Amiga community.
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- column_set - an executable to typeset a file of one "word" per line into
- as many even columns as will fit across a page with at least
- one space between columns, with lots of options.
-
- ld - a primitive directory listing AmigaDOS script (hopefully
- self documenting) which uses the column_set executable to
- lay out a listing of a directory with more than two columns
- of (sorted) file names. Uses AmigaDOS functions "list" and
- "sort", my "column_set", and the PD routine "less". This
- is included because it was my dissatisfaction with the "dir"
- output that led me to write column_set in the first place.
- In typical Unix(tm) fashion, I used working routines where
- possible, and wrote only the minimum additional code needed
- to complete the task, as "column_set.MOD". Script "ld" is
- a moderately interesting example in itself for those, like
- me, to whom the AmigaDOS Manual's description of script
- construction leaves working examples lacking, and concepts
- unclear.
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- Kent Paul Dolan, xanthian@well.sf.ca.us, 27 October 1989
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