mcs v1.1a -- 1994.may.30, first public release

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Mcs is an abbreviation for "make C string", since that is exactly what it
does.  Mcs is a small tool for programmers that will convert any text/ansi
file into a c-source file in the form of a character pointer array, with
each line from the input file having an index in the char *generic[] array
generated.

One of my current (big) projects is a BBS package, and I found it easiest to
design my account editor, main idle screen and so on with an ansi editor
such as FANSi, and then run it through mcs -- at which point the file can
simply be #included, and minor changes (such as changing generic[] to a more
appropriate name) can be made.

Run it and see what I mean.  It will also escape into standard C notation
the following ASCII chars:  CSI, ESC, BEL, TAB, FF, CR, LF, \, ', and ".

Email:	(fidonet)	Ben Kennedy at 1:241/11
	(internet)	jools@io.org (or) ben.kennedy@f11.n241.z1.fidonet.org
	(snailmail)	P.O. Box 152, Deep River ON, CANADA K0J 1P0

Or call my BBS at +1-613-584-1426!

regards,
jools

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