FMOD II

               "easy-to-use" programmable textfile modificator

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Hi, how are you?

   Have you ever been in a situation where you needed to edit several
textfiles and changing in all of them the same lines? I bet you did! Try
to remember back, what did you do? I guess most of you would have done it
with a regular editor. Isn't that too complicated?

   Look, I was having just the same problem some months ago. I needed to
modify our standard AUTOEXEC.BAT and SYSTEM.INI file from about 500 laptop 
computers! I wasn't ever thinking of writing a wierd batchfile or whatever
to solve that problem. So I started to develop this FMOD (FileMODificator).

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Cool, it's shareware

   I don't want to loose a lot of words about shareware. This program is 
shareware, you may spread it in the original form as much as you want. If 
you like it and decide to use it, please don't forget the nice programmer 
(that'll be me) and send him $20 or 25 swiss francs. In return you'll get 
the latest FMOD. The address is at the end of this text.

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The Wide Range Of Possibilities

   FMOD can do a lot of useful things with any ASCII textfile, let's have
a quick overview:

   - Insert an ASCII textfile at a certain position in the sourcefile
   - Replace textstrings with others
   - Delete a value of lines starting at a specified position
   - Delete INI [xxx] sections
   - Generate a report of all INI sections of a certain file
   
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How To Use It

   To run FMOD, you'll need to start the program adding two parameters.
The format at the DOS prompt is as followed:

   FMOD.EXE COMMANDS.MOD FILE.EXT

The first parameter specifies the file with the commands. The format will be
explained in the next chapter. The next and by now the last parameter is the
name of the ASCII file to be edited. So it's a quite simple thing.

You may add >NUL to get less output to the screen.

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The Format Of The Commandsfile

   As described above, there are several functions that are very useful
to modify any textfile. I hope it's the easiest way to explain if I show
you an example of such a file using all functions and describing
them afterwards.

   --------- ASCII Editor, file: COMMANDS.MOD -------------------
   -                                                            -
   - R Hello$Welcome                                            -
   - I C:\CONFIG.SYS$Here                                       -
   - D Cool$4                                                   -  
   - S [386Enh]$0                                               -
   - L C:\LIST.TXT$0                                            -
   -                                                            -
   -->EOF<-------------------------------------------------------

R Replaces all "Hello" with "Welcome"
I Inserts the file C:\CONFIG.SYS after the string "Here"
D Deletes 4 lines starting at "cool"
S Deletes the whole section [386Enh], 0 is a dummy and has to be there
L Generates a list of all INI sections in the file C:\LIST.TXT, 0 is
  a dummy and has to be there

The character check is NOT case sensitive.

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Informations And Limitations

   There are almost no limitations, well in fact just a few to increase
easiness:

Length of the file to be edited:              NO LIMIT
Length of the file to insert:		      200 LINES WITH 255 CHARS EACH
Length of the commandsfile:                   15 COMMANDS

Shareware limitations:                        NONE

Speed on a 386-40 /
all commands processed in a 20KB file:	      2 SECONDS

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Future View

   - The possibility to comment and uncomment any INI section
   - Insert a textfile at the end or the top
   - Execute a command directly as parameter
   - Check case sensitivity on/off

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Attention!

   This program was successfully tested a lot of times. I cannot and
I do not guarantee proper operation. Use at your OWN risk!

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At The End Of A Readmefile

   Please don't forget to register your version. This useful tool costs 
   you only a smile and 20 US$ or 25 swiss francs.

   Reto Koch
   Pfaffensteinstr. 49
   CH-8118 Pfaffhausen
   Switzerland

   Post Account: 80-38082-0
   
   Send your suggestions and impressions also to the above address.

-- (C) 1994 by Reto Koch ---------------------------------------------------