Hi Radoslaw,
would you like to try my New Stanford Pascal compiler?
It would do the things you want very easily, and you could write the
programs to do these tasks in minutes.
It runs on Windows, and if you want, on the Mainframe, too.
I would be happy to help you with the first steps to get the compiler
running on your Windows system;
maybe even help you with the conversion program. If you want, you could
write me an offline eMail.
(I do similar tasks all the time using this Pascal variant, and I am
very happy with it)
Kind regards
Bernd
Am 29.12.2020 um 18:12 schrieb R.S.:
1. Yes, maybe I described it incorretly.
Regarding your question - yes I need something like
convert ifile ofile [-tablefile]
Just byte to byte translation. No CR/LF issues, no record boundaries,
just byte to byte. The file can be large (may not fit in memory).
I agree, it is not black magic. Actually ...I did it in the past.
I wrote simple program in Turbo Pascal. AFAIR 1 hour later I modified
it to read translation table from a file.
However it was many moons ago and the tool is no longer usable, cause
it is 16-bit application (for DOS) and current x64 Windows does not
run such programs. There are tools like virtual machine or just
DosBox, but it seems to be Rube Goldberg solution.
While I am still able to code a program (I hope so!), I don't want to
start the project, install huge tool like Visual Studio, start
learning "foreign" language, learn all the environment specifics, etc.
It is just like building brewery just to have a beer for dinner. Not
to mention security policies.
As I said, I did it in the past, using ancient (now) tools, and I know
how to do it in z/OS realm. And it seems simple, so I hope someone
already did it and the tool is available as many, many other tools.
HxD has many advantages, but I guess it has no batch mode. Batch is
better - it is automatic ;-)
I don't know how many files will be processed that way, now it is
possible to do it manually, but thing may change.
2. This is even simpler tool, maybe it address rare need - just to
truncate first nnn bytes from beginning of file
Possible usage:
truncfile -header -12384 ifile ofile
truncates/deletes header, which is 12384 bytes long, the output is
written to ofile. Ofile is shorter than ifile, the difference is 12384
bytes. No CR/LF issues, just byte after byte.
I'm going to install HxD and try its features. However I'm still
looking for something batch-able.
Thank you!
Regards
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