                           CONVTXT  V1.03
                           ==============

                  Written by Jochen-Matthias Wienke
                    <C>1998 , All rights reserved
                      
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
1. GENERAL INFORMATION
======================

         
         
1.1. DISCLAIMER
===============

This  software comes with no warranty, either expressed or implied. The
author  is  in no way responsible for any damage or loss that may occur
due  to  direct  or  indirect usage of this software. Use this software
entirely at your own risk.



1.2. COPYRIGHT
==============

Private,  noncommercial usage of this software is  FREE  and   complete 
distribution of this archive is allowed.  Programm  and   documentation  
are copyright by Jochen-Matthias Wienke.  All  rights  reserved.   That
means especially that  reverse-engineering  or changing the software or
other files of this archive is NOT ALLOWED.



1.3. DISTRIBUTION
=================

Permission is given to include this program in a public archive (such as
a BBS, FTP site or PD library (disk and CD-ROM versions)) providing that
all  parts  of  the  original distribution are kept intact.

The following files are included:
- CONVTXT.00   (AmigaDE tool)
- CONVTXT.EXE  ( MSDOS executable )
- CONVTXT.AMI  ( AmigaOS executable )
- README.TXT  ( doc-file )
- ASCTAB.TXT  ( example file with all 256 8-bit characters )



1.4. CONTACT
============

Send bug reports, critics, X-mass cards, etc ...

email: j.wienke@worldwidehome.de
homepage: http://www.worldwidehome.de



1.5. REQUIREMENTS
=================

MS-DOS version:
IBM compatible PC with MS-DOS compatible environment.
(CONVTXT was tested on 486, Pentium and Pentium II PCs using different
configurations)

AmigaOS version:
Should run on all Amiga Systems.
(CONVTXT was tested on an Amiga 4000 with AmigaOS 3.x)

AmigaDE version:
Created with Amiga SDK 1.1



2. INSTALLATION
===============

No special installation required,given correctly working OS environment.
It may be an advantage to copy the programme to your  standard  commands
directory of your OS (e.g. MS-DOS:"C:\COMMAND", WIN:"C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND"
AmigaOS:"C:") to use it out of any directory under DOS. 
Rename the file "CONVTXT.AMI" to "CONVTXT" on AmigaOS computers first.

For AmigaDE:
At the moment, AmigaDE tools can only be compiled for one directory. :-(
Therefore you'll have to copy the file "convtxt.00" to "/app/stdio".




3. INTRODUCTION
===============

CONVTXT is a tool to convert textfiles between different OS environments.
CONVTXT can do the following things:
- can convert textfiles between ANSI ASCII (e.g. Windows 95,AmigaOS,Unix)
  and DOSTEXT (e.g. MS-DOS, Amiga->PC converted files by CrossDos).
- can also remove or set carriage returns for exchange beetween OSes using
  a CR + NL combination for a new line (e.g. MS-DOS, MS Windows) and those 
  using only NL for a new line (e.g. Unix, AmigaOS).
  It's also useful if you want to send an ASCII-file including no CRs
  directly to your printer.
- can add linenumbers into the output file.





4. USAGE
==========

 CONVTXT [mode] [input_file] [output_file] [LN] [NOCR]

  mode: a2d (ASCII->DOS) ,d2a (DOS->ASCII), no (for no conversion)
  LN  : add line numbers to output file")
  NOCR: use only LF for line end (else CR+LF)


- with "CONVTXT ?" you can print this also on your screen


Some Remarks:
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- if one of the first three parameters is not set , CONVTXT will ask for
  it.

- input_file and output_file may not be the same

- CONVTXT will NOT delete input_file after the operation

- if no parameters are set , CONVTXT  also asks for [LN] and [NOCR] for
  convenient start from Windows (Workbench)





5. HISTORY
==========

V1.00
-----
first version released

V1.01
-----
- some minor bugfixes

V1.02
-----
- included version string support for AmigaOS
- fixed some internal bugs in code, which shouldn't have lead to problems

V1.03
-----
- included AmigaDE version
- had to add linefeeds before user inputs in shell (AmigaDE vpcc compilation)



  
