This is a small DOS program to process a flat text file and produce a report using selected vertical columns.

The program takes as input a filename without an extension as the extension is assumed to be .dat It also assumes the existence of a file with the same name, but with a .ini file extension. The program only reads the first line of the .ini file and this determines the columns which are used to form the output. The output is in the form of a text file and an html file.

Hint: use 'head' to capture some sample lines to form the .ini file and edit, so that the first line is all spaces or ones.

  Usage: report filename

 Author: Nigel Pentland
  Email: nigel@nigelpentland.net
   Web : http://www.racf.co.uk
   Date: 15 January 2006
    Ver: 1.00

   Note: filename is filename without extension,
         report assumes files are as follows:
          filename.dat = input ascii data
          filename.ini = file defining output data
          filename.txt = raw text output file
          filename.htm = html formatted output data

          filename.ini - only the first line is read -
           this line is used as a mask such that -
           '1' means include in output, and
           ' ' means omit from output

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