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DELDEXNT - this is a program for deleting MACREX indexes and associated files to clean up your hard disk.  Providing you have made a backup (.MBK) file you will still have a copy of your index to re-load if necessary.  DELDEXNT will not delete any files called <index name>.MBK.  Additionally, DELDEXNT sends the deleted files to the recycle bin, so they can be restored from there if you make a mistake.

   DELDEXNT.ZIP (50,682 bytes)

HEADINGSNT - This program can do two things

  1. It will generate a list of all the main headings used in a MACREX backup (.MBK) file and place these in another file. Providing that the correct text for cross-references ("see" and "see also" references) is used it will also show which headings are cross-referenced. The backup file needs to be sorted for this program to work correctly.
  2. It will copy the MACREX backup file to another file and strip off all the page references in the new file.

    HEADINGSNT (45,024 bytes)

MBKLEN - this simple program will simply check the length of the longest line in a text file, including a MACREX .MBK file.  This can be useful for setting the record length in advance of loading a file, but is not necessary if you load backup files through the "Read and Correct a Backup File" option from the Macrex Utilities Menu.

    MBKLEN.ZIP (22,944 bytes)

SELECTNT - This program will allow you to create a sub-index from an existing index.  The sub-index will contain all of the entries which do (or do not) contain a particular word or phrase. It works on a backup (.MBK) file and produces a second backup file. The text used to select the entries may contain "wildcards" or "regular expressions". This means that the symbols \^$?:*+-[] have a special meaning. This is explained on a help screen within the program.

    SELECTNT.ZIP (48,419 bytes)

STRIPNT - This program will ask you for the name of a .MBK file to read from, the name of an output file to receive the "stripped" version of the .MBK file and the text to define which lines are to be stripped and copied to the output file. The file which is to be stripped will be scanned one line at a time. If the text which has been selected to be removed is present at the beginning of the line it will be removed and the rest of the line written to the new output file. If the text to be removed is not present, the whole line will be ignored and will not be written to the output file. You can use this to split indexes. For example, if all the authors have been entered under A by prefixing them with a, ( A, comma, space) and all the subjects under S in a similar way, you can prepare separate backup files containing the subjects and authors by stripping first a, (don't forget to type the space) and then s, to different output files.

    STRIPNT.ZIP (44,719 bytes)

VOLFRIG - a program to restore volume numbers when importing a file into MACREX. For example, Cows, 14.2, 7, 99, 15.66, 100 would be changed to Cows, 14.2, 14.7, 14.99, 15.66, 15.100 to allow correct processing by MACREX.

    VOLFRIG.ZIP (51,126 bytes)

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Last Updated 14 October 2004 by Drusilla and Hilary Calvert