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From: zyx@crl.com (R. L. Samuell)
Subject: [REPOST] scat - a Perl script for more interesting text file viewing
Date: 1996/06/17
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organization: The Night-Owl's Nest
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NOTE:  This is a repost of an original article from last month.

Are you tired of the plain old line at-a-time text file display 
utilities like 'cat', 'page', 'more', or 'less' ?  Then you may
want to chase away those text display blues with 'scat'.  :-S

I have written a Perl script called 'scat' that provides a more
creative display of consecutive screens for users running ANSI
emulations.  This program is not meant to be a replacement for
the above standard paging programs, in fact it lacks back-up and
skip-screen features and keyboard access when piping.  Still, I
have found it to be a versatile little tool that all ASCII artists 
might want to have around to slide-show their work or just make 
the simple viewing of text files less boring.

'scat' was developed using Perl5 running under OS/2 but it seems
to work equally well in most other environments that include a Perl 
processor.  'scat' is freeware but please read the comments in 
the script for important instructions and notices.  Feedback is 
welcome.  You can obtain the script by fingering the following ID, 
thusly, to capture the finger text to a file on your system:

    finger scat@twinbrook.cis.uab.edu > scat

If you wish to contact me personally, please send e-mail to:

    samuell@cis.uab.edu

Enjoy !!!


R L Samuell
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