Erstellt : Sonntag dem 01.11.98                         Erhalten am 03.11.98
von      : *Winston Smith{at}1:101/170* an *Tony Pater*

Hallo Winston,

WS>      REXX is good, too.  It all comes down to how much variation there
WS> is in your data set.  I would recommend SED as a "data
grinder" as you
WS> can use expressions in its command file.  If the data is something
WS> simple (e.g. toss out the last ten lines) EDLIN or DEBUG will work as
WS> well.  If there is a tremendous amount of variation in the output data
WS> set, you can throw EMacs e-lisp parser or REXX at it.  GNU/UNIX SED,
WS> The Stream Editor, is desgined for this kind of stuff, though....
Reading all your comments it happens to come into my mind that your suggested  
solution would only work with DOS based machines if the mentioned Programs  
exist under DOS too.

There certainly is a REXX version for Dos and SED (at least a light version)  
exist on that platform too. But how about Emacs?

I use for editing in all environments I run (except Unix) an commercial  
Editor calles KEDIT. (Though you into JCL you might have worked with VM too,  
where it is called XEDIT).

I'll suggest it as a good choice for working under 4dos.


- mfg *Claus* -


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