WHAT IS IT ?

If you are like me, you save a lot of postings from different news-groups.
After a while you have a lot of files lying on your HD, and they do not
look nice with their massive headers.

This is a program I made to strip those headers from the saved files.
You can customize which headers you would like to save through a config
file. All others will be erased.

This also saves room on your HD, if you're _really_ strapped. :-)

INSTALLATION:

Simply copy the executable "StripHeader" to anywhere you want, for example
C: . Copy the file "StripH.config" to your S: directory, after you've edited
it in a text editor. Take a look at it and you will see what I mean. To
include a header you would like to save, just copy the first few chars of
the line you do not want to erase and insert it in the config file. The
text-body will ofcourse not be erased.

USAGE:

StripHeader <filename>

This will strip the specified text file for the headers you've not specified
in the config file. 

TOGETHER WITH DOPUS:

If you want to use it together with DOpus, then simply make a button for
it, and you can do multiple files in one go. Just remember to set these
flags on the Button edit screen when you configure it:

- Do all files
- No filename quote
- Recursive directories
- Rescan source

BUGS:

None that I'm aware of. Let me know if you encounter any.

COPYRIGHT INFORMATION:

StripHeader V1.03 by Odd H. Sandvik, 1997.

This program is freeware. You may freely distribute this program as long as
no more than a nominal fee is charged to cover time and copying costs. All
files in this distribution are to be kept together, without being modified
(except by an archival program).

The author is not responsible for any loss of data, damages to software
or hardware that may result directly or indirectly from the use of this
program.

Use at your own risk.

HISTORY:

V1.01     First public version.
V1.02     Fixed a bug that removed 1 byte from the file if it was previously
          stripped of it's headers.
V1.03     Fixed a serious bug generated by the Devpac assembler causing the
          saved file to be destroyed when the file was too large. Thanks to
          Merlyn for noticing.

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO     CRC       STAMP          NAME
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[generic]                   34      34 100.0% -lh0- 47eb Apr 19  1997 stripheader/StripH.config
[generic]                 1193    2904  41.1% -lh5- 636d May 17  1997 stripheader/StripHeader
[generic]                 1212    2326  52.1% -lh5- 35d4 May 16  1997 stripheader/StripHeader.readme
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
 Total         3 files    2439    5264  46.3%            May 17  1997