Dedication
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Joi Ellis and Ray McVay inspired most of the filters in The CommmandLine
Commando. It was through Joi's excellent early work (circa 1986) and the
fact that Joi's filters were freely distributed, partially (or perhaps
more than partially) due to Ray McVay's revision and subsequent
distribution through Public Brand Software, that many of us learned both
about filters and assembly language in MS-DOS.

The non-Microsoft portions of the CommandLine Commando are dedicated to
Joi and to Ray for this early guidance and these excellent examples...
That is to say, the spirit behind this FreeWare package is dedicated to
these two, who would probably have preferred by now to see this package
written for a non-Microsoft OS and compiled with a non-Microsoft
compiler in a non-Microsoft language.

Permission
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Please keep in mind that even though permission is given for the cloning
of Joi's original Filters for this release, this in no way diminishes
the ownership and influence of Joi Ellis in all of this. It would not be
fair use if you used Joi's ideas for a saleable product, without
obtaining permission first, so please do so.

Ray McVay is a stakeholder in filters as well, and his influence cannot
be ignored so please obtain permission from Ray also.

This applies to the following programs which are modeled after the
original filters distribution:

Decho    | echoes standard input to screen (great for debugging).
Dict     | puts each word of a file onto a separate line.
Ffeed    | reads a filespec and sends files to standard output.
Lcase    | translate all uppercase characters to lowercase.
Onespace | removes extra blank lines from a file.
Truncate | truncates a line at first matching char (or space).
Ucase    | translate all lowercase characters to uppercase.
Uniq     | deletes multiple occurances from a sorted list.

For additional background on how Joi got into this mess and was later
joined by Ray, please see the article "Computing Then And Now - Filters,
Sediment, and Sentiment." in nowthen.txt also included in this
distribution of The CommandLine Commando.

Licence Agreement
-----------------

You have a royalty-free right to use, modify, reproduce and distribute
these programs and their source code and associated files in any
non-competitive way you find useful, provided that you agree that their
respective authors have no warranty obligations or liability resulting
from said use or distribution in any way whatsoever. If you don't agree,
remove all associated files from your computer now.

Bill Buckels
589 Oxford Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3M 3J2

Email: bbuckels@escape.ca
WebSite: http://www.escape.ca/~bbuckels

March 31, 2000

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