Utilities

				Kelvin Smith
				Financial Computer Systems, Inc.
				1 Strawberry Hill Ct.
				Stamford, CT  06902
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This submission contains TECO source (.TES), TECO compiled (.TEC), and
documentation (.DOC) for the following:

BSLASH - Put all backslashes in a BASIC program at the beginning of a
line.  This can be useful for setting up a program to run STRIP on it.
	This macro does not have a separate documentation file.  Basic
documentation is found at the beginning of the source (.TES) version.

CASE - Convert lower case to upper case or vice versa in an entire file,
not changing letters inside quoted strings or in comments (delimited by
exclamation points).  This is primarily intended for working on programs;
thus, quoted strings must terminate on the same physical line and comments
are held to terminate at the end of a physical line if not explicitly
terminated by a second exclamation point.
	Optionally, you can also change colons to backslashes (for changing
from old versions of BASIC to current VAX BASIC/BASIC-PLUS-2 standards).
Note that you don't want to use this feature if you have statement labels.
	This macro does not have a separate documentation file.  Basic
documentation is found at the beginning of the source (.TES) version.

RENAME - Rename variables in a BASIC program (including hard-to-find
single letter variables).  RENAME works properly on extend mode BASIC-PLUS,
BASIC-PLUS-2, and VAX BASIC programs.

STRIP - Remove unnecessary backslashes and ampersands from BASIC
programs (primarily for converting from BASIC-PLUS-2 V1.6 to BP2 V2.x).
	This program was previously published in the December 1984 issue,
Volume 6, Number 6, of the VAX/RSTS Professional (now VAX Professional);
it and the documentation have been slightly updated.

TECOIN - TECO Initialization:  Documentation on how TECO on RSTS and
VMS gets started, and an example of how to customize the initialization
process.  The example includes small macros to: delete to the n-th
occurrence of a given character; backup a file being edited; exit from
TECO marking the position in the file for future return; delete a section
of text, saving the deleted text in a q-register; set flags and adjust
the file specification on entry to TECO; specify a series of commands
at DCL/CCL level to be executed within TECO.
	This program and documentation originally appeared in the
January 1988 issue of Leverage, the newsletter of the Languages &
Tools SIG.
	The compiled TECO program is called TECO.INI, rather than
TECOIN.TEC, since it would normally be used with that name (see the
documentation for details).


This submission also contains source (.B2S) and documentation (.DOC) for
the following BASIC-PLUS-2 program:

BDUMP - A binary file dumper, with options to display ASCII values in
octal or decimal by byte or by word.  This program contains a highly
optimized octal word formatter.  The program can be easily altered
to run under VAX BASIC (V2 or higher) or RSX BASIC-PLUS-2.


All programs were originally designed and written for RSTS.  They may or
may not be as usable under other operating systems.