Recent changes to Utilities

Utilities modified by Ross Smith

Ross Smith — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:14:27 -0000

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 Usage: tabit <file>

 Limitations: Records need to be less than 64K bytes long; an intermediate file called <file_tabbed> is created, the initial file is destroyed and the intermediate file is renamed to the original.  
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+**randstring** This program randomly orders N discrete integers in the range 1-N.
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+Usage: randstring N
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+Limitation: N must be less than 2,000.  If you hate that, change the program.

Utilities modified by Ross Smith

Ross Smith — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:41:12 -0000

Gene Scanner Utilities

General Utilities

tabit This utility takes a file and converts spaces or multiple spaces between fields in a record into tabs. It is useful to convert the output of a FORTRAN fixed format file.

Usage: tabit <file>

Limitations: Records need to be less than 64K bytes long; an intermediate file called <file_tabbed> is created, the initial file is destroyed and the intermediate file is renamed to the original.