."\ Master source for cleanch : /usr/src/local/man/src/cleanch.rof .TH CLEANCH P "Manual V1.0 for Program V1.7" "Julian H. Stacey" "Julian H. Stacey, http://www.berklix.com" .\" A4 the cludgy way. .pl 29.6c .UC 4 .SH NAME cleanch \- Clean unpleasant characters from files. .SH SYNTAX .B cleanch file[s] .SH DESCRIPTION This program does 3 things: .in +4 .ti -2 - Strips junk control characters out of files, such as control Z=sub (EOF for MSDOS) & nulls out of files .ti -2 - removes \\r preceeding \\n to avoid blank lines going from msdos to unix. .ti -2 - Takes IBM PC character set (brother printer book, char set #2) german umlaut characters & converts them to Epson compatible characters. Needed so when data is typed in to ibm pc using german keyboard mode, we can afterwards treat text as the normal Epson character set. .in -4 .SH EXIT CODE 0 for OK, 1 for fatal error, 2 for interrupt, 3 for cannot create tmp file, else no of errors. .SH LIMITATIONS For umlaut conversion to work properly, .I cleanch must be run before any other program that strips off parity bits. .SH HOST OP SYSTEM This utility runs on both Msdos 3.2 & Unix. .SH COPYRIGHT Program Copyright Julian H. Stacey 31st August 1988. .br Document Copyright Julian H. Stacey 2nd March 1990. .so author.jhs .SH ENHANCEMENTS LATER -v: verbose flag, name files. .SH FILES Temporary files with names of type clXXXXXX are used. .\ End of file