bigbuf program

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Documentation for the bigbuf program is below, with links to related programs in the "see also" section.

{   version = 1.01; (* of bigbuf.p 2010 Feb 05}

(* begin module describe.bigbuf *)
(*
name
   bigbuf: show last n characters of a file

synopsis
   bigbuf(afile: in, bigbufp: in, bfile: out, output: out)

files

   afile:  input file to examine

   bfile:  the last buffersize characters of afile

   bigbufp:  parameters to control the program.  The file must contain the
      following parameters, one per line:

      parameterversion: The version number of the program.  This
      allows the user to be warned if an old parameter file is used.

      buffersize (integer): number of characters to to store in a
      circular buffer

      bufferstart (integer): number of characters to display from the
      start of the buffer

   output: messages to the user

description

   Read characters into a circular buffer so that only the last
   buffersize characters are stored.  At the end of the file, show the
   first bufferstart characters of the buffer.

examples

strawberry 76% b
This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (Web2C 7.5.5)
The top-level auxiliary file: paper.aux
The style file: unsrt.bst
Database file #1: buildrefs/troff.bib
Your field is more than 5000 characters---line 685 of file buildrefs/troff.bib
 : title = "{I protein: bacteriophage T7-coded inhibito
 :                                                     r of Escherichia
I'm skipping whatever remains of this entry
Your field is more than 5000 characters---line 964 of file buildrefs/troff.bib
 : y
 :  ear = "1982"}
I'm skipping whatever remains of this entry
Your field is more than 5000 characters---line 1198 of file buildrefs/troff.bib
 : %% McAllister, W.T., Morris, C., Rosenberg, A.H. and Studier, F.W. (1981)
 :                                                                          .  \fI
J. Mol. Biol.\fP \fB153\fP, 527-544.
I'm skipping whatever remains of this entry
Your field is more than 5000 characters---line 1500 of file buildrefs/troff.bib
 : %% Pingoud, A.
 :                (1985).  \fIEur. J. Biochem.\fP \fB147\fP, 105-109.
I'm skipping whatever remains of this entry
Illegal end of database file---line 2153 of file buildrefs/troff.bib
 : year = "1981"}
 :
I'm skipping whatever remains of this entry

How to locate this?  One must count back 5000 characters from the end
of the file.

documentation

see also

author

   Thomas Dana Schneider

bugs

technical notes

*)
(* end module describe.bigbuf *)
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