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Date:	Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:04:19 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: utility to convert records to lines ?

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In <3F259733.968@peterskye.com>, on 07/28/03
at 02:34 PM, Peter Skye said:

>I can write a little Rexx program to do this, but does anyone know of an
>existing utility that can convert my data file so that it is text
>records?

I can't think of anything offhand. Utilities like cut and awk expect line
oriented input.

Just write it in 5 lines of REXX and be done with it. :-)

do while chars('inFile') >= 83
x = charin('InFile',,83)
call lineout 'outFile', x
end
say 'I did not bother to read the last' chars('inFile') 'characters'

The speed should be good enough.

Steven

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