ABN.ISCAMS@USC-ISID.ARPA (07/29/85)
NetLandians, I noticed the PC and Pascal world doesn't have (or I couldn't find) a nice little public domain hi-bit stripping program for WS and other nasty type files. Grabbed a handful of PD programs, some TURBTOOL procedures, and did a little hack. Stripper naturally strips the 8th bit (just like good old PIP with the Z option). Also does a tabify routine to replace all those WS DOC type file streams of spaces with 8-space tabs. Also grabs isolated CRs and makes them CR/LF combinations. Works fairly fast (didn't do any inline assembler to keep it transportable), simple, from the command line. Default product is FOOBAR.HAR, but you can force any desired file name from the cmd line. Sorry, no MS-DOS paths (tho if someone could tell me how to do that...) but alternate disks, of course. Source is available via FTP from my directory, ABN.ISCAMS@USC-ISID as: STRIPPER.PAS I'll leave it there for a week or so. Would appreciate feedback (especially if any bugs or failures!). Regards, David Kirschbaum Toad Hall