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DOS tool to convert letters in text file to upper/lowercase. (Miscellaneous)

posted by mceric, Germany, 28.10.2022, 11:00

> Googled all the way, and did not find any, is there one maybe....

You should be able to find a DOS version of TR (from textutils or coreutils, for example from Delorie DJGPP, or a 16-bit DOS version of something similar) which lets you do things such as

tr 'a-z' 'A-Z' < normal.txt > upper.txt

Interestingly, the TRCH tool by Jim Hall only translates ONE character at a time in the current version, so you would have to do

trch a A < normal.txt > temp.txt
trch b B < temp.txt > temp2.txt
trch c C < temp2.txt > temp.txt
...
trch z Z < temp.txt > upper.txt

unless I misunderstood how to use it?

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Complete thread:

• DOS tool to convert letters in text file to upper/lowercase. - Cyberdyne, 28.10.2022, 07:41 (Miscellaneous)
  • DOS tool to convert letters in text file to upper/lowercase. - mceric, 28.10.2022, 11:00
    • DOS tool to convert letters in text file to upper/lowercase. - Cyberdyne, 28.10.2022, 12:45
      • DOS tool to convert letters in text file to upper/lowercase. - jhall, 28.10.2022, 16:03
        • DOS tool to convert letters in text file to upper/lowercase. - jhall, 28.10.2022, 16:24
          • DOS tool to convert letters in text file to upper/lowercase. - jhall, 28.10.2022, 16:47
    • DOS tool to convert letters in text file to upper/lowercase. - Rugxulo, 31.10.2022, 23:55
  • DOS tool to convert letters in text file to upper/lowercase. - rr, 28.10.2022, 19:02
    • DOS tool to convert letters in text file to upper/lowercase. - Laaca, 28.10.2022, 21:38
      • DOS tool to convert letters in text file to upper/lowercase. - RayeR, 15.12.2022, 16:25
    • DOS tool to convert letters in text file to upper/lowercase. - bretjohn, 30.10.2022, 02:49
      • DOS tool to convert letters in text file to upper/lowercase. - rr, 30.10.2022, 11:38
        • DOS tool to convert letters in text file to upper/lowercase. - bretjohn, 31.10.2022, 16:12
  • DOS tool to convert letters in text file to upper/lowercase. - Rugxulo, 29.10.2022, 00:59
  • DOS tool to convert letters in text file to upper/lowercase. - Doug, 30.10.2022, 08:47