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From: Albert.Koelmans@newcastle.ac.uk (Albert Koelmans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: New utilities on Newcastle info server
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.131732.21304@newcastle.ac.uk>
Date: 19 Feb 91 13:17:32 GMT
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The following utilities have been added to the Newcastle archive. They were
contributed by Stuart Hickinbottom.

Names and decriptions are as follows:

bascrnch
--------
Here is a quite an effective basic cruncher which runs on the desktop
providing a simple front end. The actual basic cruncher was written
by Mike Harrison, and so I take no credit for that...

closeup
-------
Here is a very useful desktop magnifier, which does not stop the machine
like Acorns. Also keyboard fine positioning of the mouse is provided.
I find it most useful when editing templates.

makeapp
-------

This is a desktop application to turn BASIC files into Absolute files by
glueing a header on the front to start basic. This is useful since it
somewhat protects programs, and also allows them to be squeeze'd.

modeconv
--------

This is a simple desktop interface to Roger Wilson's excellent ChangeFSI
command-line utility, which allows the mode of sprites to be changed, and
also the scaling. Dot patterns are also used to try to preserve colours
in a mode with less of them.

pathname
--------

This is my implementation of a utility similar to 'pwd' on unix. It has
a number of facilities and advantages over other implementations - in that
it runs as a 'utility' from the RMA, so that it can safely and simply be
called without corrupting applications. It is also very compact as it is
written in ARM code.

shutdown
--------

This desktop utility provides a machine 'shutdown' in a similar way to the
Mac - also providing a restart button.

squeeze
-------

This utility provides desktop access to Acorns 'squeeze' utility - squeeze
files by simply dropping them on the icon bar.

strings2
--------

This is my implementation of the unix utility 'strings' - although it
does not have identical parameters. Very useful for finding the text
stored in program files.


To retrieve a file a file from the archive, send a message to 
info-server@newcastle.ac.uk with the following content:

line-limit 1000
request: sources
topic: archimedes filename
request: end

where filename is replaced by the name of the file that you want.
A filename of 'index' will send you the latest index file.

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