A Burroughs-esque Cutups Engine

Description

Here you will find a tiny Python program that performs cutups on text files.

The program will ask you for the name of the input file, what you want to name the output file, and whether newlines are a delimeter. The default cut-points are periods and commas; these are removed. If you answer 'y' to the newline question, newlines are also cut-points. The program reads the input file, cuts it up, and writes to the output file.

Download

If you don't have the Python interpreter on your computer, you can download it at http://www.python.org. Python will run on Unix, Linux, Mac, BSD, PalmOS, and Windows.

As for the program itself, here you go:

In addition to having the Python interpreter, you must have either Winzip from http://www.winzip.com or tar and gunzip.

Unzip the file to your favorite directory. There you will find README and LICENSE text files, and cutup.py, the program itself.

Version Information

This is a super-alpha version. It does no sanity checking of input or output files. Please only use text files; binary files will probably freak it out. If there are any uncaught exceptions, or if you have any questions, or if anything else goes wrong, please mail the output to me at bcollar@cs.unm.edu. I take no responsibility if this program causes you machine to explode, melt, or otherwise act in any weird or uncool way. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

As I do not have a M$ Windows machine, I cannot test it on that platform. Please please please let me know if it runs well, or generally what happens if you run it on Windows. It should run fine, but you never know.

This program is protected by the GPL. Please read the LICENSE file if you are interested.

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