ReadMe File for

LongText(C) CopyLeft Bill Buckels 1995-2000
All Rights Reversed.
Remove word wrap from text files in Windows 95/98/NT
Version 2.0

Program Description
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LongText is a command line utility program for Windows 95/98/NT that
removes word wrap (hard returns) from text files prior to importing into
windows word processors like msword or windows write. This is helpful if
text is created in a normal editor then formatted and printed in
windows. LongText handles long filenames under Win9X/NT

Good for programmers who write specs and documentation in a programmers
editor and need to finish the job as a formal document.

Usage
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Usage is : "longtext [infile.txt] [outfile.txt] msword"

Special Formatting
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Suppressing LongText and Creating Lists
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If a line begins with a number, or a line begins with a "pound sign",
then the line is considered to be "standalone" and it is left alone.

If a line begins with a "pound sign", the pound sign is stripped-off. If
the line begins with a number it is left on and assumed to be a member
of a numbered list.

Preparing Text Files to insert into MSWORD Documents
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The command line switch "msword" causes LongText to substitute a "soft
return" (Ascii 11) instead of a hard return (Ascii 13, Ascii 10). This
is especially useful when preserving formatting in a "MSWORD 97"
document.

Reporting Bugs
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Even though LongText is FreeWare, bugs can be reported. To report Bugs,
use the online form at:

http://www.escape.ca/~bbuckels

Please note: LongText was written for fun, and as a public service,
but mostly to make the Author's working life easier. Enhancement
requests will probably not be accepted, since the goal is not to be
perpetually developing this product.

Open Source
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LongText is distributed as FreeWare with Open C Language Source Code. It
is written in hard-wired 100% Pure Industrial Strength Microsoft 32 Bit
C, and compiled under MSC Version 12 (Visual Studio 6). The code in this
program is pretty simple and you shouldn't have much trouble reading it.

Installing and Running LongText
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Install by "UNZIPPING" complete with pathnames to the drive of your
choice.

Start LongText from the Command Line.

Licence Agreement
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LongText(C) CopyLeft Bill Buckels 1995-2000.
All Rights Reversed.

LongText is distributed as FreeWare with Open Source.

You have a royalty-free right to use, modify, reproduce and distribute
this program and its source code and associated files in any
non-competitive way you find useful, provided that you agree that Bill
Buckels has no warranty obligations or liability resulting from said use
or distribution in any way whatsoever. If you don't agree, remove
LongText and 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

LongText is not a derivative work of any other author, and is the
exclusive property of Bill Buckels (the author). All methods are the
product of work and study by the author.

LongText was not produced in anticipation of profit.

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