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From: cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.apple2
Subject: strip8.c, unix-type util for striping 8th bit
Message-ID: <20805@fs2.NISC.SRI.COM>
Date: 7 Sep 90 08:25:38 GMT
Reply-To: cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson)
Organization: Network Info Systems Ctr., SRI Intl., Menlo Park, CA.
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Due to the fact I haven't gotten around to creating comp.sources.apple2,
this appears on comp.binaries.apple2.  It's a quick little C hack
to strip the 8th bit off a file.  Should run on any unix box, 
compile with 'cc -o strip8 strip8.c' type idea.
tested on sun systems..

oh, prints to stdout...

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#include <stdio.h>		/* standard io */

main (argc,argv)
int argc;
char *argv[];

{
int	a;
char prog[10];
FILE	*fpointer;

if (argc>1)				/* check for filename arg */
  {
    strcpy(prog,argv[0]);

    if (!(fpointer=fopen(argv[1],"r")))	/* check for existence */
	{
 	  perror(prog); 
	  exit(1);
	}
    printf("%s:",argv[1]);  
  }
else fpointer=stdin;			/* no filename, use stdin */

  do 
    {
      if((a=fgetc(fpointer))==EOF) break;	/* exit if eof */
      a &= 0x7f;
      if (a==13) printf("\n"); 
      else printf("%c",a);

    } while (!feof(fpointer));			/* do until all done */
printf("\n");
fclose(fpointer);
}

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