CONCATTEXT 1.1

Program Notes: 1 August 2000

General

This program takes a set of text files, typically output from Blob, and concatenates them into a single file for Integrate to read.

Memory Required: 4096K to 14500K+

This large amount of memory is required in order to accommodate the files, which are stored in memory before being written to disk. Future versions may be stream-oriented, which would allow a much smaller RAM footprint. It is recommended that as much memory as possible is allocated for this program.

Input File Type

A series of text files. The files must all be in the same directory, and must all have identical file names, except for a slice number which must be delimited by periods in the name. The number of digits in the slice number must be constant, so lower-numbered slices must be padded with zeros.

Input Limits

None; limited by available RAM.

Output File Types

TEXT

ResTypes

Application (ConcatText 1.0) = ‘qtCT’

Operator Notes

The files to be concatenated need to be in a single directory, although other files may also be present. They must all be numbered in the filenames, with the number delimited by periods and with the same number of digits. Thus, if there are 100 or more files to be concatenated, the first one would be: "filename.001.suffix". There may not be any gaps in the series.

Program Notes

None at this time.

Known Bugs

None at this time.

Release History

1.0 - July 1996

1.0 - Jan 2000

Authorship

This program was written by Dave Hirsch in July 1996.