textlif75

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
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REFERENCES
EXAMPLES
AUTHOR

NAME

textlif75 - convert an ASCII file to a HP-75 text file

SYNOPSIS

lifutils textlif75 [-n] LIFFILENAME INPUTFILE > Output file

lifutils textlif75 [-n] LIFFILENAME < Input file > Output file

lifutils textlif75 -?

DESCRIPTION

textlif75 generates a text file for the HP-75. The program reads plain text from standard input or the file specified by the command line parameter INPUTFILE and writes the LIF file header followed by the converted HP-75 text file to standard output. This file type can be used on the HP-75 only. The maximum line length of this file type is 255 characters excluding end of line char(s). textlif75 adds a line numbering starting with zero with an increment of one.

OPTIONS

-n

Get the linenumbering from the input file. The line numbers must be the first token in each line of the input file. They must be in the range 0-9999 and in consecutive order. Exactly one space seperates the line number from the following text of the line.

-?

Print a message giving the program usage to standard error.

REFERENCES

The HP text file format is documented in page 107 and 111 of the HP75 Description and Entry Points documentation.

EXAMPLES

If demo.txt is an ASCII text file then

cat demo.txt | lifutils textlif75 DEMO | lifutils lifput lifimage.dat

will put the HP-75 text file with the name DEMO into the LIF image file lifimage.dat

AUTHOR

textlif was written by Joachim Siebold, bug400@gmx.de using code from Tony Duell, ard@p850ug1.demon.co.uk and has been placed under the GNU Public License version 2.0