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This program was written for a friend who was printing up raffle
tickets on his ST with PageStream. It will search through a
file and replace a sequence of XXXXs with an incremental counter.
usage: xxxx filename.ext -start -count -numberofx -duplicates
e.g. from mupfel or gulam:
xxxx filename.doc -1000 -250 -4 -2
will replace 250 sequences of 4 'X's with a counter starting at
1000 and going through 1249. Actually 500 replacements will be
done since duplicates is set to 2. My friend had a stub and
a name/address form so each had to be numbered the same.
('xxxx filename.ext' will default to the those values - 1000,250,4,2).
'xxxx' will return instructions.
Nitty gritty: if there are not enough sequences of 'X's, new files will
be created. e.g. my friend had 5 pages of 3 tickets in a
file called raffle.doc - the output of XXXX was into sixteen
files called raf000.doc - raf015.doc, since 16*5*3 >= 250.
-- Greg