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Date:	Mon, 28 Jul 2003 19:23:52 PDT7
From:	Sheridan George <s-geo@usa.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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Would your 4+ meg file have caused the enhanced editor to choke?
Pulling your file into it, setting the line length to 83, and turning
wrap ON might have done the trick. On the other hand look at all of the
fun you had learning more about your unfavorite programming language.

Sheridan

Nah, my idea is not so good. If any of your binary data happened to be
an ASCII space epm would have wrapped it there making a short line.

Now, you can write up your experience and publish your utility so the
next person that asks the question you asked will have a ready made
solution.

Peter Skye wrote:

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>Steven Levine wrote:
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>>Just write it in 5 lines of REXX and be done with it. :-)
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>> 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'
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>>The speed should be good enough.
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>I made it a generic program -- 130 lines with command line parameters
>for source, target and record length plus full error checking. CharIn()
>worked fine, thanks.
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>- Peter
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