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{version = 3.12; (* of chacha 1996 July 29} (* begin module describe.chacha *) (* name chacha: changes characters in a file synopsis chacha(fin: in, fout: out, chachap: in, output: out) files fin: any file in which one wants to translate one set of characters into another set. fout: the file to which the translated copy of fin is written. chachap: the chacha parameter file which contains the translation sets. chachap must only contain 2 lines. the first line contains the characters used in fin, typed one right after the next with no blanks at the beginning. the second line contains the characters that the characters in the first line are to be translated into, typed in the same way and in corresponding order. if you want to change a character to blanks, or vice versa, then you must have the blank character in between other characters in chachap. output: where error messages will appear. description chacha translates characters in a file to a new set of characters. also, more than one character can be translated in one run of the program. examples to convert between double and single quotes, use: '" "' to convert blanks to periods, use: j j j.j in the chachap file. each character on the first line on chachap will be translated into the character directly beneath it on the second line in the output file. documentation delman.assembly.intro and delman.assembly.chacha see also worcha.p author patrick r. roche bugs none known technical notes the maximum number of characters that can be translated is constant top. caution: top is also the maximum line length. *) (* end module describe.chacha *) {This manual page was created by makman 1.45}{created by htmlink 1.62}