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From: twyant@freenet.vcu.edu
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Subject: tr shell utility (0/1)
Date: 25 Jan 1995 09:16:02 -0500
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    The following post is an implementation of the Unix "tr" command to
run under the ORCA shell. For non-Unix types, "tr" is a kind of
general-purpose character translation utility; it reads stdin, scans it
for some user-specified set of characters, replaces any matches with
characters from another set, and flushes any other characters through.
Possible uses are uppercase conversion, lowercase conversion, replacing
carriage returns with linefeeds (or vice versa), compressing multiple
spaces, and so on. Because it is based on fgetc it is not blindingly
fast, but if it's this or nothing, you might want to take this. And no,
it is not a substitute for sed. 

    Executables, source, and docs are included (except for the "man" 
page, which you can get elsewhere). This has also been posted to 
cco.caltech.edu and grind.isca.uiowa.edu.

						Tom Wyant
						twyant@freenet.vcu.edu