Align 1.5 build: 9327 released: 2009-03-11

Align text is columns.

Copyright (c) 2009 Canadian Mind Products.

C command line utility.
Download from http://mindprod.com/products3.html#ALIGN

===> Free <===
Full source included.
You may even include the source code, modified or unmodified
in commercial programs that you write and distribute.
May be used freely for any purpose but military.
For more details on this restriction, see
http://mindprod.com/contact/nonmil.html
If you include any Canadian Mind Products code in your own applications,
your app too must be labeled non-military use only.
All C source and EXE files code are included.

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Prerequisites:

This program runs under Microsoft Windows from the command line (e.g. Win2K/XP/Vista)

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Installing on a PC:

Download source and executable files to run on your own machine as a standalone utility.
To install, extract the zip download with WinZip
(or similar unzip utility) into any directory you please,
often J:\ --  ticking off the "use folder names" option.

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Installing on a MacIntosh:

Use Safari to download source and executable files to run on your own machine as a standalone utility.
The EXE files will not work. You will have to recompile, perhaps making minor changes to the source code.
Safari will automatically unpack the zip into ~/Downloads (version 10.5)
[or on the Desktop (version 10.4 and earlier)].
First install a recent Java JDK or JVM.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html.
You may optionally move the download tree to a permanent home.

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Rebuilding:

The zip already contains the necessary exe, so unless you modify
the program, there is no need to recompile the source or recompile it.
Configure basedir="E:/" in rebuild.xml to the drive where your files are and tweak rebuild.xml.
Use ANT and rebuild.xml, not build.xml, to rebuild and link.

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Use:

ALIGNaligns data in ASCII text files into neat columns.
Also converts comma-delimited files to columns with 2 spaces
between each column.  Input fields must be separated by
commas or white space.  Fields may contain spaces if they
are enclosed in single or double quotes or C comments /* ...
*/ or //.  The best way to understand this program is to try
it on a COPY of any ASCII Text file, especially one that
contains badly aligned columns of data.  It left justifies
the output so it is designed for columns of text, rather
than numbers.  C source is included.  Copyrighted, but may
be distributed freely and used for any purpose except
military.

To use:

align.exe  somefile.txt

Don't use it on Microsoft Word docs, except plain ASCII or
RTF

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Version History:

1.0 1998-09-20

1.1 1998-11-08
   - embed new address

1.2 2008-01-02
   - convert to Windows from 8.3 DOS.
   - convert to POSIX
   - convert to safe char handling library

1.3 2008-01-03
   - correct placement of temp
   - display banner on any error

1.4 2008-04-09
   - get working on MS Visual Studio

1.5 2009-03-11
   - bundle with ANT build script

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