Hi, On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 11:44 AM Bret Johnson <bretj...@juno.com> wrote: > > If you're interested in learning something that will help you more in the > "long term", you may > want to experiment with something like SED (or AWK or ...) as a way to > manipulate text files, > or "whipping up" a custom executable file in ASM or Basic or C or whatever. > > Those are useful learning experiences to have in your tool bag for "special" > situations > where an off-the-shelf solution isn't available.
Sed * https://ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/unix/sed/ Awk * https://ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/awk/ * https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html#Time-Functions Rexx * https://sourceforge.net/projects/regina-rexx/files/regina-rexx/3.9.5/ * https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/rexx/ * http://www.rexxinfo.org/info/index_info.html * http://web.archive.org/web/20120212231928/http://www.kilowattsoftware.com/tutorial/rexx/bidate.htm _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
