Bart Lederman Contributions

[.BWBASIC.DIR]		Contains the Bywater BASIC Interpreter with
			a few small modifications to make it run on
			VAX/VMS. VESTed Alpha image from Glenn Everhart.

[.BAS_EDIT_FUNCTION.DIR]  Make an RTL function availble to 3GL 
			programmers and DATATRIEVE users. Does a
			lot of what F$EDIT does for DCL: strip
			leading and trailing spaces, make upper or
			lower case, compress whitespace, and trim
			parity; or all of the above at once.

[.COMMANDS.DIR]		Contains updates to my command procedures
			which show all of the parameters for
			F$GETDVI, F$GETJPI, F$GETSYI, including
			files with just the new parameters for VMS
			V5.5

[.MOVEFILE.DIR]		Contains a program which uses the new
			MOVEFILE qualifier to a file system QIO
			to move and de-fragement a file.  It's
			intended mostly as a way to explore the
			use of movefile, and not as an actual
			disk de-fragmenter.  However, it will
			consolidate files and make files
			contiguous.

[.NULL_DB.DIR]		Contains two programs written in C with
			embedded SQL that read the metadata in
			an Rdb database to find all of the fields
			in all of the tables which are of type
			DATE: it then updates all records where
			those fields are set to the default date
			of "17-Nov-1858" to make the fields NULL
			instead.  The older program does the
			entire database and then has one big COMMIT,
			but this made the snapshot file very large.
			The newer program commits one table at
			a time.  It was needed because moving tables
			from one database to another with some
			utilities set all of the NULLs to zero, and
			we needed to get the null date back.

[.TPU.DIR]		Contains a couple of routines I use to
			process text files which come in from other
			systems.  Two of them strip blank spaces:
			one is faster than the other because it
			removes large blank spaces first.

[.TRIM]			An update to my program (in C) which will
			process one or more files, and do some or
			all of the following to all of them: 

	Remove characters from the beginning or end of each line;
	Remove (and optionally replace) characters from within each line;
	Insert a prefix or suffix on each line;
	Process the first line differently from the subsequent lines;
	Insert a line at the beginning or end of each file;
	Trim trailing blanks and tabs from each line;
	Remove blank lines;
	Strip non-printing characters.

Bart Z. Lederman
System Resources Corp.
22 James St.
Beverly, MA 01915-3704

(DCS and DECUServe accounts LEDERMAN)