Short:        Fast ASCII code stripper with an edge
Author:       rade@coli.uni-sb.de (Ralph Debusmann)
Uploader:     rade coli uni-sb de (Ralph Debusmann)
Type:         util/conv
Replaces:     util/conv/nocode.lha
Architecture: m68k-amigaos

You have seen programs like this before. But this one does have an edge.

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** Introducing "nocode"

"nocode" helps you remove (or replace) ASCII codes from files (text files
most probably). For instance you might wish to remove all CR-characters
(ASCII 13) from a file transferred from a MS-DOS machine. "nocode" is an
improved clone of "StripCodes" (also in the Aminet util/conv-directory),
in case you know that program.

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** Improvements over similar programs like "StripCodes"

* source and target files may be the same (i.e. target file is
overwritten in this case)

* fast assembly language implementation of the core remove/replace
routines

* explicit messages (and error messages)

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** "nocode"'s Usage is very similar to "Stripcodes"'...

* source and target files different

example: nocode file1 file2 code 13
... removes all characters with ASCII code 13 (=CR) from file1 and
writes the stripped data into file2 (file1 remains unchanged).

* same source and target

example: nocode file1 code 13
... same thing as above, only here the result of the stripping process
is written back into file1.

* replace characters

example 1: nocode file1 file2 code 13 replacecode 88
example 2: nocode file1 code 13 replacecode 88
... replace ASCII code 13 characters with ASCII code 88 ones (does not
remove anything, file length remains the same).

* shorthands

You may also use shorthands for the keywords "code" ("c") and
"replacecode" ("r"), i.e. example 2 from above can be tersely rewritten
as:

example 2 terse: nocode file1 c 13 r 88

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** This is version 1.1, the second "nocode" release on Aminet.

1.1 implements three improvements over version 1.0:

- less memory consumption (half as much)

- quicker (a little)

- added shorthands for "code" and "replacecode"-keywords

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** "nocode" is public domain software.

The source in AmigaE³ and m68k inline assembly is included (thanks again
to Wouter for E³, this still fabulous, if unfortunately unportable
language).