Re: Harry's Basic Program

["Morris Krok" essence@xxxxxxxx]

  I would be happy to receive your program, it sounds interesting. I do
have XY3, and possibly it will work with Xy4dos.

  My e-mail address is essence@xxxxxxxx
          Many thanks for your offer.
                Morris

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Subject: Re: Harry's Basic Program


> Morris,
>
> I have a wee rutine in XPL3 that works in an inverse way.
> It deals with an input file in Upper Case.
> Initially it compaires every line with the line following it and deletes
> duplicates. Then it performs some global changes (ie / THE/ the/ etc) and
> finally, from the top it processes every word making them lower case
EXCEPT for
> the first letter. (remember 'and', 'the', 'is' etc are already lowercased
from
> above global changes, and while they are still processed no further
changes
> happen to them).
>
> If it could be of use, let me know and I can email it to you offline.
>
> Cheers
>
> Marc
>
>
> Quoting Morris Krok :
>
> > Robert,
> >
> > The program that I am after is to capitalize the first letter of a
> > word. When I type a catalog, or have to type long lists of items, I
> > prefer to type everyting in lower case, and use such a program to
> > capitalize, the first letter. However, a more sophisticated program,
> > would be to exclude the pronouns or verbs such as: and, as .to ,the, a,
> > from, was, etc., In other words, what one can call buzz words or words
> > that connect the nouns of an item with other nouns or descriptive
> > parts.
> > Is there anything in U2 that caters for something like this.
> >
> > There is one other thing which I cannot see whether it is possible to
> > do. When one is in the www. serve.com/xywwweb/xysearch.cgi website, to
> > have a program, that will call up every item with say the name Carl, or
> > Robert and then save the entire collection in a specific file. At
> > present there are 12 squares, and one has to click sequentially on them
> > to extract all the information, after ,of course ,entering what you have
> > searched for.
>