[sealbeater]

Originally Posted by darryl

@sealbeater. What you describe is a manual process of using these tools. Using sed to remove headers and footers is easy enough manually. But, as you should know, there is a world of difference between using these tools manually on a case by case basis, and incorporating their use into an effective "one size fits all" script.

Anything that can be done manually can be scripted.

Originally Posted by darryl

You seem to have sufficient skills to accomplish the former but not the latter, despite your apparent high opinion of your skills and your apparent assumption that the rest of us don't have any.

When someone tells me writing a script is the equivalent of

Originally Posted by fjtorres

Have you written a decompiler before? Or a BASIC interpreter? Or a program to convert, say, FORTRAN TO C++?
That is the scope of the problem.

Yea, I do have to question. Prior conversations have already formed the framework under which I operate. Most of you don't really have much in the way of skills, sad as it makes me to say. See previous quote for an example.

Originally Posted by darryl

I look forward to seeing a working script from you, failing which:

Should i ever be bothered, you'll be the first to know.

Originally Posted by darryl

A man of words and not of deeds
Is like a garden full of weeds

That's a nice quote, although unattributed. Here is another one.




Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

-- James A. Baldwin