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+From: cameron@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Cameron Smith)
+Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
+Date: 25 Oct 92 04:24:17 GMT
+Organization: none
+
+Everything below the "cut here" line is "wrtfdist.tex",
+the distribution file for "wrtfile.tex". This is a short
+TeX file containing code that allows you to put (for example)
+
+ \FILE abc.def
+ Mary had a little lamb,
+ its fleece was white as snow.
+ \EOF
+
+into a TeX file and have the lines "Mary...lamb," and "its...snow."
+written out to a file "abc.def" when the original file is TeXed.
+This functionality is identical with that of Jonathan Fine's
+"filechop.tex", which was posted to the UKTeX Digest recently
+(Volume 92, Issue 37, Friday, 9 Oct 1992). Fine's code is simpler
+than mine and executes faster, but its definition of \FILE uses
+\EOF as a delimiter to gather up the entire text to be written out
+as a parameter. This places potentially severe limitations on the
+amount of text that can be written. My implementation uses a loop
+to write one line at a time until \EOF is seen, so there is no limit
+on the size of files that can be created.
+
+My version also allows you to say "\TYPE" instead of "\FILE <name>",
+to have lines written to the terminal and log file instead of to another
+file. This is useful for presenting prompts or informatinal messages
+in interactive TeX programs.
+
+The file "wrtfdist.tex" itself uses the "wrtfile" code to create "read.me",
+"wrtfile.doc", and "wrtfile.tex" when TeXed. Try it out and read the
+"read.me" file for more information.
+
+Finally, everyone should feel free to redistribute "wrtfdist.tex",
+and to use the code in "wrtfile.tex" to create "package files" like
+this one, but archivists please note the redistribtion restrictions:
+don't break apart the files and store them separately, put *only*
+the package file "wrtfdist.tex" into your archives. Thank you.
+
+Hope this is of use--
+--Cameron Smith
+ cameron@symcom.math.uiuc.edu
+