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This stack will combine all TEXT (ASCII) files contained within the top
or all levels of a folder of your choosing. There are faster file
concatenators available (e.g., BBEdit) but you may find this utility
useful when you simply want to combine all text files within a folder.
It is also useful if you wish to specify the order of the files by
some criterion such as creation date instead of the normal alphabetical
order. You can even include an index of the combined files. A less
flexible but much speedier method is described after the default
method.
Before selecting "Combine Files..." from the Combine menu, you can:
**1) Adjust the primary and secondary sorting order of the files, i.e.,
by international alphabetical order, creation or last modified date or
time, file size, or Creator type, each in ascending or descending order
(1°–Sort and 2°–Sort menus).
**2) Specify a particular, or all, Creator type(s) for files of type
“TEXT” to be included in the combined file (click on displayed 4-letter
code or select "Specify Input Creator…" from File menu).
**3) Specify Creator type preference for the output “TEXT” file (click
on displayed 4-letter code or select "Specify Output Creator…" from
File menu).
**4) Specify whether to concatenate files as they are or let the stack
“Add File Index and Delimiters” (Combine menu or check box button).
The latter option will add a sorted file list to the start of the
combined file. It will also precede the text from each individual
file with a file delimiter (“$$>”), the file name, and two returns.
**5) Specify whether or not to include all files in any subfolders
(Combine menu or check box button).
**6) Specify dates to include by date created or modified (click on
Before/After buttons to toggle between the two and click on the date to
reset or remove displayed date).
Once options are set, select “Combine Files...” from the Combine menu
(or click on arrow button) and choose a folder containing text files
to combine from the "choose" dialog (note: file names will not be
visible). Before combining, File Combiner will compute an estimate of
the combined text file size. At this point you can either specify the
output file name and destination or cancel.
The stack will remember your settings, and automatically warn you if you
do not have sufficient disk space.
Choose "Speedy Combine..." from the Combine menu (or click the arrow
button with the option key depressed) if you simply want to
combine ALL text files in a folder of your choosing which has NO
subfolders. The ordering of the text will be restricted to the one
determined by an alphabetical listing of the file names, but the
output creator and "Add file delimiters" settings will be recognized.
In the latter case, delimiters consist of a line of text with the
respective file name preceding the text from each file combined.
Version History:
.90 11/16/92 (Created 11/14/92): Should work, but still have some frills
to add.
.91 11/19/92 Changed the combination of externals used, and added button
interface. New features include the ability to specify cut-off dates for
creation or last modified file dates. Also can now optionally include
files contained in subfolders.
.92 5/21/93 Fixed some script problems introduced with .91 that
prevented specification of creator types. (Thanks to Rane Curl for
finding these.)
.93 9/5/93 Added the new "speedy" file combining method. It is much
faster, albeit less flexible, than the default method because it uses
a previously overlooked freeware xcmd written in 1988 by Dave Fry.