Free software BY Project Software & Development, Inc. This software is furnished for free and may be used and copied as desired. This software or any other copies thereof may be provided or otherwise made available to any other person. No title to and ownership of the software is hereby transferred or allowed. The information in this software is subject to change without notice and should not be construed as a commitment by PROJECT SOFTWARE AND DEVELOPMENT, INC. PROJECT SOFTWARE assumes no responsibility for the use or reliability of this software on any equipment whatsoever. Project Software & Development, Inc. 14 Story St. Cambridge, Ma. 02138 617-661-1444 Program: REF Author: Gary Larsen / Robin Miller Date: Fall 1984 Description: REFormat is a program used to convert input files into variable length output files with implied carriage control. During this conversion, the control characters NULL, XON, XOFF, and DELETE are stripped. The program will also optionally do ASCII to EBCDIC and EBCDIC to ASCII conversions. This program is generally used to reformat the RSXNET & VAXNET log files. Command line format: input_file/switches output_file/switches Where switches are: /ASCII - Convert input file from ASCII to EBCDIC. /EBCDIC - Convert input file from EBCDIC to ASCII. /VFU - Input file contains line printer Vertical Format Control. /TOTAL - Output number of records and bytes written to output file. /BACK (D) - Remove delete sequences from the input file. /ESC (D) - Break output records on cursor positioning escape sequences. /NAME (D) - Output the name of the reformatted output file. Switches can be negated by prefixing the switch with a '-' or 'NO'.