Say! 1.6 build: 9639 released: 2010-01-28 Enhanced ECHO command. Copyright: (c) 2017 Canadian Mind Products. C command line utility. Download from: http://mindprod.com/products4.html#SAY! ---- Notes: This program can only be used from the command prompt, (or via an command line style icon shortcut) e.g. under Windows command.exe or JPSoft tcmd.exe, formerly called the DOS box. Just clicking the programs in a directory listing will not do anything useful. Just typing the program names at the command prompt will not either. This program requires a manual install! See below. This program works with vanilla text files, (e.g. ASCII files or UTF-8 Unicode files). You will need a text editor to create and view them, not a word processor. e.g. notepad, Visual Slick Edit or other suitable text editor http://mindprod.com/jgloss/editor.html. You must use a monospaced font http://mindprod.com/jgloss/monospacedfonts.html (aka fixed pitch, aka programmer font) to view your files, or they won't look properly aligned. I put out an avalanche of free software into the world, and submit PAD files to hundreds of distribution sites, but I rarely hear back from anyone. What's happening? Does it all just work fine? It is so complicated nobody can figure out how to use it and they give up on it? It is it useful? Since everyone has the source, do people just fix the programs to their liking themselves? Did you have trouble installing? Do I presume you know too much? I would be happy to hear from you about your experiences, positive or negative and your requests for improvements. A one-line email to roedy@mindprod.com would be great. ===> Free <=== Full source included. You may even include the source code, modified or unmodified in free/commercial open source/proprietary 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 labelled non-military use only. http://mindprod.com/contact/nonmil.html All C source and EXE files code are included. ---- Prerequisites: This program runs under Microsoft Windows from the command line (e.g. Win2K/XP/Vista) ---- 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. ---- 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. ---- 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.java 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. ---- Use: SAY! is like DOS/Windows/Take Command ECHO with easily embedded control characters. It lets you echo both text and control characters to pipes or files to construct small files on the fly in bat files. You specify embedded control characters as their decimal number equivalents e.g. 7=bell 8=Bs 9=tab 10=Nl 12=form feed 13=Cr SAY! "empty" 13 10 > dummy.txt SAY! "Y" 13 | DEL *.* SAY! 27 "&l5257.1058J" 26 > LPT1: SAY! 7 7 7 "The sky is falling" SAY! "first line" 13 10 "second line" 13 10 > tinyfile.txt will put two lines to the file with CrLf line terminators. Use it to send control strings to a printer, or simulate keystrokes to a program. Generates arbitrary strings for pipes or redirection. It fixes a design flaw in Windows and Take Command ECHO. say! "contents" > somefile.txt will put just the letters contents into the file, not the quotation marks SAY! is very similar to SAY in the Ziff Communications PC Powertools. Raymond Hettinger also wrote a very elaborate SAY program based on SAY! that allows you to use mnemonics like ETX instead of 3. There are two versions included, both with source: ASSEMBLER version say!.com that works in DOS/W3.1/W95/W98/Me/NT/W2K/XP/W2K3/Vista/W7-32 and a 32-bit C version say!.exe that works in W95/W98/Me/NT/W2K/XP/W2K3/Vista/W7-32/W7-64 Use the say!.com version except for Windows 7 64-bit. It is smaller faster, and it does the right thing with: say! "13" " ghosts" > file.txt the com version will put "13 ghosts" into the file. the exe version will but " ghosts" into the file with a leading Cr character. C can't tell the difference between a parm in quotes and one without, so "13" looks to it like 13. To get a literal quote in say!.com use code 34. To get a literal quote in say!.exe use two quotes is row "". ---- Version History: 1.6 2010-01-28 port the DOS assembler version -30-