PMP> I've uploaded newest Ira McDonald's tools for producing IETF

PMP> I've uploaded newest Ira McDonald's tools for producing IETF

Tom Hastings hastings at cp10.es.xerox.com
Fri Feb 20 12:56:29 EST 1998


Ira has updated his tools, including fixing a bug, to:




ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/tools/cscan.exe


ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/tools/maxln.exe


ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/tools/overx.exe


ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/tools/strip.exe


ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/tools/readme.txt




These help in producing .txt files that follow IETF rules


for ASCII files, with no special characters, and no lines longer than


72 characters.




Here is the readme.txt file:




<bigger>Hi folks,                                Thursday (29 January
1998)




The following files are in '/pub/pwg/tools/ (DOS executables):




cscan.exe - Character Scan Utility


maxln.exe - Maximum Line Length Scan Utility


overx.exe - Overstrike Merge Utility


strip.exe - Control Character Strip Utility




Each of the programs has a -h option which explains the command line.


Sometimes, MIBs produced with MS-WORD cannot be successfully


stripped of headers and footers.  The fix is to run my text utility
'overx', which


folds line fragemnts from overstrike lines (fragments end in single


carriage returns, without a following linefeed/newline) to combine them


into a single canonical line - the 'generic text driver' with some or


all versions of MS Word yields such overstrike lines when used with


Tom's styles - I wrote 'overx' last year, to help Tom out - these 
latest


Job Mon files caused me to find and fix a small bug in 'overx'.




Ira McDonald, outside consultant to Xerox Corp.


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