LIST File Listing Utility
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LIST is a utility for displaying selected portions of files. It
is possible to display lines from a file in several modes, including a
screen at a time, as well as to search for character strings and write
out portions of files to disk. In addition, LIST can use SRD to se-
lect multiple files, making it easy to do such chores as looking
through a group of files for a particular string.

LIST is very fast, as it uses a macro interface to FCS to read
and write files; in addition it buffers the disk address of every 100
lines to simulate random access on the file.

This version of LIST includes the capabilities to subtask SRD and
subtask itself to list a help file. The help file is included
(LIST.HLP) and should be placed on LB:[1,2]. The routine which gets
file names from SRD is called FNDFIL.FTN; if for some reason SRD
doesn't work with LIST (if your SRD has a different output file format
from our SRD, for instance) then modify this file. If you would rath-
er use PIP than SRD, there is a file called PIPFIL.RAT (and also PIP-
FIL.FTN) which contains the FNDFIL subroutine, but for PIP.

LIST is written almost entirely in Ratfiv; the .FTN files are
included, however the Ratfiv compiler is also included on this tape,
and should be very simple to build. (See README.1ST on the Ratfiv
compiler directory.)

To build LIST for IAS, say

@IASBUILD

To build LIST for RSX-11M, say

@RSXBUILD

Send comments, problems, etc. to:

William Wood
Computer Center
Intstitute For Cancer Research
7701 Burholme Ave.
Philadelphia, PA. 19111
(215) 728 2760