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>QUOTE.EXE is a small, fast liitle program that will read in an ASCII text
>file and format the output into another file with the ">" marks everyone
>is so fond of when replying to BBS messages. It is intended for use with
>COMMO 4.53, but it can be used by any terminal program that can execute a
>shell program from a macro.
>
>It is conceptually based on the TRUNC12.ZIP program distributed by Mr.
>Jim Goodenough of Santa Clara, California. When I first used COMMO, I
>was impressed by the speed and size of it. I had previously used
>Telemate, and the difference was startling. One of the features I
>missed however, was the ability to automatically "quote" messages.
>TRUNC12 answered this need, but it was unfortunately written in
>compiled BASIC, had it's file names hard-coded into the program,
>and was somewhat slow.
>
>QUOTE is written in Turbo C. It allows you to invoke it with your
>own file names or rely on it's default selections. It also does not
>offer fancy "quoting" characters. You have your choice, as long as
>it is ">". I found that many BBS programs would filter out high-ascii
>characters as line noise when used with TRUNC.
>
>To use QUOTE, you should write a screen image to disk as a file, invoke
>your favorite editor, save the file, run it through QUOTE and use
>ASCII upload to send the resultant file back. Like magic, the quote
>marks appear!
>
>For COMMO, install the following lines in your COMMO.MAC file:
{nf9} {screen y,quote.in} {}
{nf0} {exec ted quote.in}
{exec quote}
{asciiup quote.out,:}
{}
>Pressing F9 will capture the message from your screen into file QUOTE.IN.
>You then start the reply process on the remote BBS and press F10. COMMO
>will execute the editor (I use TED.COM from PC Magazine; use what you wish)
>allowing you to trim out the extra lines you do not wish quoted. When you
>exit the editor, QUOTE will process the file and return to COMMO. COMMO
>will then ASCII upload the processed file to the BBS. It's quite fast.
>
>If you do not use COMMO, you can call QUOTE any way you wish. You can
>invoke the program stand-alone as:
QUOTE INFILE.EXT OUTFILE.EXT
>...and create whatever macro your terminal program needs to automate this.
>
>As stated, QUOTE is small fast and dirty. It works. Enjoy it.
>
>Electrik Kool Aid
>aka Don Kinstler
>Binghamton, NY
>May 23, 1991