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                            THE BLIND NEWS DIGEST

                                 Issue # 1041

                            Tuesday, May 17, 1994

Today's Topics:


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                           all UPPERCASE software
                  Basic Reference and Information Services
                              ALL CAPS SOFTWARE
                      Re: Books/Novels on disc or CD ?
                              All caps software
                            Upper Case characters
                            Re: ALL CAPS SOFTWARE
                            Re: ALL CAPS SOFTWARE


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Subject: all UPPERCASE software
From: dashiell@nadc.navy.mil (Jude DaShiell)


Bill,

There's a couple good alternatives that can be used.
A program written by Walter Kennamer called text.exe has several
filters in it.  One of them will completely uppercase
an entire file.  However to do it you must write the
file to a different output file name.
Text.exe works reliably and is self documenting.
To get it to make an uppercase file,
text -u in_file.txt out_file.txt
the -u tells text which of its filters you want
in this case the uppercase filter.
The in_file.txt is the original file.
The out_file.txt is the product of the filtering.
This is extremely simple even to write using C.
But since the wheel has already been invented why reinvent it?
Walter doesn't want any money for text.exe so long as the user doesn't sell
the program.

jude <dashiell@nadc.nadc.navy.mil>




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Subject: Basic Reference and Information Services
From: patt@dorsai.dorsai.org (Patt Bromberger)


             National Library Service for the Blind
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               REFERENCE AND INFORMATION SERVICES

                                                     August, 1992

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Subject: ALL CAPS SOFTWARE
From: pinard@IRO.UMontreal.CA

   I have gotten a request from someone who is visually impaired and
   who cannot read notes written in lower case letters and is looking
   for a program that will convert a file into all upper case letters
   (a DOS program).

   Any ideas?

With most MS-DOS ports of sed, do:

   sed y/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/ INPUT > OUTPUT

(the best is to write INPUT as %1 and OUTPUT as %2 and save this line
into a UPCASE.BAT file) or, it you prefer using an MS-DOS port of tr:

   tr [a-z] [A-Z] < INPUT > OUTPUT

There are also equally easy one-liners in gawk or perl.  Tell me if
you want me to work them out.  Here is an (untested) C program doing
the same thing.  Compile it into UPCASE.EXE, and use it with:

   upcase < INPUT > OUTPUT

Here is the source:

        #include <stdio.h>
        main ()
        {
          int character;

          while (character = getchar (), character != EOF)
            if (character >= 'a' && character <= 'z')
              putchar (character - 'a' + 'A');
            else
              putchar (character);
          exit (0);
        }

Keep happy!

--
Franc,ois Pinard        ``Vivement GNU!''       pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
About the League for Programming Freedom?  Email me or lpf@uunet.uu.net




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Subject: Re: Books/Novels on disc or CD ?
From: griffith@aur.alcatel.com (Mike Griffith)
Organization: Alcatel Network Systems, Raleigh, NC

For books on audio cassette, you may want to contact the nearest
Library For the Blind and Physically Handicapped (check your phone
book or call your local public library for information).  For books
on cassette tape to borrow and books on disk (DOS - I'm not sure
about Macs) check Recording For the Blind at 1-800-227-4792 in
Princeton, NJ.  There is a one time registration fee of $37.50, at
least the last time I heard. The books on computer disk are for sale
only.




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Subject: All caps software
From: PITCCN4.KENNED09@SSW.ALCOA.COM (William A. Kennedy)




                         May 16, 1994


SUBJECT: MAKING EVERYTHING INTO LARGE LETTERS



Bill,

If it is an MS DOS program that the person is looking for, I have one that
makes all letters capital letters.  Strangely enough, the program is called
"CAPITALS" and I got it from the PC Special Interest Group in California.  It
resides on disk #667 and is part of the "writer's toolkit."  PCSIG's phone
number is (408) 730-9291.

I hope this helps.



          Bud Kennedy



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Subject: Upper Case characters
From: HUDSON@msu.edu (Michael.Hudson)

Bill,

On your inquiry about converting the lower case characters in a
file to upper case, I have a suggestion.  If these are text files
you could import them into Word Perfect, block the entire document
with F-12 then use the switch function shift F-3 to change all the
text to upper case.

I hope that helps!

Michael Hudson
Michigan State University




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Subject: Re: ALL CAPS SOFTWARE
From: jejanes@mtu.edu (Jeff E. Janes)
Organization: Michigan Technological University

Bill McGarry (wtm@sheldev.shel.isc-br.com) wrote:
: Index Number: 32172
:
: I have gotten a request from someone who is visually impaired
: and who cannot read notes written in lower case letters and
: is looking for a program that will convert a file into
: all uppper case letters (a DOS program).
:
:

ASCII files can be easily converted with a simple program, word processors
files woud be much harder to convert.  Many word processors have a convert
case option.  If you let me know what the situation is, I'll see
If I can dig up or write something (If I still have net access this
summer, it's questionable right now).


Jeff




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Subject: Re: ALL CAPS SOFTWARE
From: wtm@sheldev.shel.isc-br.com (Bill McGarry)
Organization: Olivetti North America

Thanks to everyone who responded on this software.  I posted
just about every reply that I received.  I also received
offers from Jim Edwards and from David Lunney to write
such a program.

                                Bill McGarry
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