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MultiCV v1.01
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Introduction
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MultiCV is a simple program to convert ASCII
files from/to the systems Amiga, Macintosh and MS/DOS.
Note that also accented characters will be converted (if possible).

Sources are also included, so that MultiCV could be compiled on any system.


Distribution/Disclaimer
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MultiCV is Copyright (C) 1995 by Giuseppe Ghibo`.

MultiCV is FREEWARE.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITH NO EXPLICIT OR IMPLICIT
WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. YOU ARE USING IT AT YOUR OWN RISK.

THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ANY LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY DIRECT,
INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING
IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

This software may be freely distributed and copied only as long as
the following conditions are acknowledged:

 - All parts of the program and the documentation myst be left intact
   in any way.

 - The distribution of single parts is not allowed. The repacking of
   this distribution with other packers/archivers is, however,
   allowed.

 
Usage
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To convert an ASCII file from one system to another you must
use MultiCV as follows:

 multicv -xxx2yyy srcfile destfile

where

 xxx = source system, i.e. one of ami, dos or mac
 yyy = destination system, i.e. one of ami, dos, mac
 srcfile  = source file name.
 destfile = deestination file name

Note that cannot be xxx = yyy (obvious).

For instance to convert the ASCII file myfile.txt from Amiga to MS/DOS you
can use

 multicv -ami2dos myfile.txt dosfile.txt

where dosfile.txt is the name of the destination (dos) file.

If no source nor destination file name are provided the
input is read from stdin and the output is sent to stdout, so that we
can pipe the output (and/or the input), as in the following example:

 multicv -ami2dos <dosfile.txt | multicv -dos2ami | more


Distribution Files
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This archive contains the following files:

MSDOS/MULTICV.EXE Binary executable for MS/DOS
amiga/multicv  Binary executable for the Amiga
multicv.c  C source file.
multicv.doc  The file you are reading.


Author info
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If you have some questions, suggestions, comments, bug report,
please feel free to contact me at <ghibo()galileo.polito.it>.


History
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version 1.01:
         - Fixed a bug which caused to allocat too much memory for
    mac2dos and ami2dos conversions.
  - Changed %d to %u for some printf().

version 1.0 - First public release.