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build	2017-09-25	David Schmidt	[261b7e] Update build process to produce a zip file
doc	2017-09-21	David Schmidt	[5d661c] Call attention to the need to define the record...
src	2017-09-25	David Schmidt	[261b7e] Update build process to produce a zip file
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.cvsignore	2017-09-25	David Schmidt	[261b7e] Update build process to produce a zip file
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LICENSE	2013-05-16	David Schmidt	[d9d51e] Updates for 1.3 release
readme.txt	2017-05-09	David Schmidt	[3b9557] Update after release
transformdirectory.bat	2015-05-04	David Schmidt	[d079be] Move internal utilities, create external utilit...
transformdirectory.sh	2015-05-05	David Schmidt	[5e01db] Update documentation and invocation of transfor...
transformutil.bat	2015-05-04	David Schmidt	[d079be] Move internal utilities, create external utilit...
transformutil.sh	2015-05-05	David Schmidt	[5e01db] Update documentation and invocation of transfor...

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This is one of many tools that RetroFloppy.com creates and gives away free
to do the work of bringing old files into the new world.  If you have no
idea how to use these tools, or just want this work to be done for you, 
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New for this version:
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New utilities:

New transforms: 

Transformenator introduction:
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Transformenation is something that should be possible to do with some rudimentary shell scripting. You should be able to run a binary file through sed or awk and have byte sequences change to different byte sequences.

But you can't.

You could probably run a file through a hex dumper, change hex values, then un-transform it back to binary. But that's kind of a pain too. The problem is that sed and awk work on lines, defined as things that are delineated by what they consider line ending characters like 0x0d or 0x0a. But what if your data stream contains 0x0d and 0x0a bytes - but you don't want them to count as line endings? What if you need to remove nulls, hex zeroes, or whatever you want to call them from a binary file or data stream?

You're stuck.

Maybe that's why you're here. Transformenator can help.

Invocation:
java -jar transformenator.jar transform_name infile outfile

See http://transformenator.sourceforge.net for details.