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diff --git a/macros/plain/contrib/wrtfile/wrtfdist.readme b/macros/plain/contrib/wrtfile/wrtfdist.readme new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1407da3854 --- /dev/null +++ b/macros/plain/contrib/wrtfile/wrtfdist.readme @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +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 + |