SplitP - Split document file for printing on front and back of computer 
         continous feed paper.

CopyRight ©1992 John Bianchi

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!! AUTHOR IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE OR
LOSS OF DATA!

This program and source file are public domain so long as the source,
documentation (this file), executable(s) and copyright are kept together 
in their original form.  FredFish and others are free to distribute.
Please keep this document with the archive as the program gives 
little information about what it does.

Well, what does it do?!?!

After spending a lot of money downloading PD/ShareWare/FreeWare Amiga BBS
programs, I found the documentation files hard to read on a computer
screen.  As these programs usually have 100+ pages in their manuals, I
found I was wasting the other side of all that expensive computer paper.
What was needed was to split the manual into odd and even pages and
print only the odd pages (1,3,5,etc.) on one side, then feed the paper
through for even pages (2,4,6,...) to be printed on the other.

SplitP will create 2 files from your original file, splitting the output
in 66 lines (default) between side One and Two of the paper.  These files
could then be printed (or copied to the printer) in seperate print jobs
resulting in output on both sides of the paper (as long as you re-load the
paper in your printer corectly).

SplitP reads the specified number of lines per printed page (defaults to
66) or a formfeed and switches back and forth to side 1 and 2 of the
new text file.  I'm sure binary files will create havoc (as SplitP only
searches for a formfeed character or a newline character in it's page
count)

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CLI Usage:

SplitP BigManual          ;will create 2 files: BigManual_1 and BigManual_2
                           from the file BigManual (this will happen in the
                           current directory

SplitP T:BBS.Man -p88     ;Will create T:BBS.Man_1 and T:BBS.Man_2 using
                           88 lines per page

SplitP ?                  ;gives usage and version information

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I'm sure a much better (even mediocre (SP?)) Amiga C programmer out there
could write this much better than I.  This is about my third C program
ever and is the first release as such (version 0.8). As I wrote this in one
night, I'm sure there will be future improvements.

If I had more knowlege of C and the Amiga (better references) I would have
strickly used 2.0 specific routines.  Hopefully someone out there will re-
write this in 2.0 code (residentable, VPrintF(), ReadArgs(), etc) and
release that source (don't make it too complicated, please).

If you improve this program, I ask that you place the source and executable
in the public domain (somehow) for others to enjoy.  This program will save 
paper, trees and money.  As I am kinda proud of this mess (My brain is 
still BASIC, you know), please give a little credit to me in your version.

(pretty simple, huh?:)

Enjoy!  
John Bianchi
CIS: 76256,3436
BIX: jbianchi