This program converts the return code types of ASCII files between Line
Feed (Amiga & UNIX), Carriage Return (Apple Macintosh), and Carriage
Return with Line Feed (lame PCs). It's useful for compiling source code
on a different computer other than the one it was developed on,
particularly if the compiler is picky about that sort of thing. It also
makes text file transfers far less painful than usual (if you're one of
those people that ends up stripping off those nasty characters from the
ends of lines).

There isn't a great deal in terms of new features. There is actually ONE
new feature (wowee!). It's not extremely useful, but it allows you to
bypass the usual file identification process and provide your own. It
can have it's applications, believe it or not.

On the bug fixing side of things, there are only two that have been
found. Mika Lundell of Finland kindly pointed out an Enforcer hit
(which are pretty harmless anyway -if you can ever apply that term to an
Enforcer hit!) that was caused whenever the program was run without
arguments, but never during normal operation. There is no way (from my
study of the code) that it could have crashed, or cause other programs
to do so. Please bear in mind that this isn't down to my naff testing
techniques, but due to the fact that I developed all versions of
RetConvert prior to this one on my humble A500+, which did not have the
luxury of an MMU! I now have a rather posh new Amiga with an MMU, so I
have been able to check for hits. So far, I haven't found any!

The second little bug fix was a tiny one that I found myself
when converting a directory full of files (using the Workbench SPAT
script). Simply put, whenever you'd supply the name of a directory for
conversion, it would report that it didn't have enough memory to load
the file. Oops! Again, as RetConvert cleans up after itself quite
cleanly, I'd be surprised if this would ever cause anything more than a
little bit of bewilderment! Checking is now done to make sure that you
know the mistake is yours!

NOTE: This program is Command Line only

Andrew Elia

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[generic]                 5523    8980  61.5% -lh5- 16db Dec 12  1996 RetConvert/RetConvert
[generic]                 7494   17326  43.3% -lh5- 164d Dec 13  1996 RetConvert/RetConvert.Guide
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