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Columnise - puts ASCII text of short lines into columns, maintaining
the order down each column.
Introduction
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This program was written to fill a personal need. I haveto maintain a
list of names and phone numbers, in alphabetical order.
I wanted them listed in columns, maintaining the order down the columns
and from the bottom of the most right-hand column of one page to the
top of the left-hand column of the following page.
Use
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The program can be called from the WB or CLI. From the WB you have to
supply the parameters on demand but from the CLI you can supply them all
on the calling line, together with Q(uiet) to supress output.
The program reads the data and returns the length of the longest line.
Subsequently all lines will be padded with spaces to the same length.
A new file is generated in the same directory as the given file, with
'.col' added to it's name.
Examples
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columnise ?
Columnise [InputFile [NumColumns [NumLinesonPage [NumSpaces] [Quiet]]]]]
In other words everything is optional, if you don't supply it, the prog
will ask.
columnise names 4 3 5 q
produces names.col from names as supplied. ( I wish I could remember
all the phonic alphabet !, but then I'm showing my age)
Note that there are 3 pages with a FormFeed between each.
FREEWARE
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There is no charge for this program so pass it around as you like, but
please keep the files together and acknowledge me as author in any
publication.
I should be delighted to hear from anyone (E-mail, postcard or letter)
who finds Columnise useful, and of course about any bugs you may find.
Geoff Tegerdine gtegerdine@cix.compulink.co.uk
17 Northcliffe
Eaton Bray
Dunstable UK
LU6 2DE
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Disclaimer
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This program is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either
expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranty
of fitness for a particular purpose. Though every care has been taken to
make this program user-friendly and bug-free, the entire risk as to the
results, reliability and performance of this program is assumed by you.