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ASCII Tools

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[[Image:ASCII_Tools.jpg|right|thumb|250px|ASCII Tools (2021), part of COSMOS application]]
<big>ASCII Tools </big>
ASCII Tools was initially created for [[CP/M]]-80 are a set of tools that can be used in order to process very large ASCII text files. They can be useful to programmers, editors and authors who want to have their source codes or articles respectively, saved in a single ASCII file on the CPC6128. ASCII Tools have been under development since 1988 by [[KSL|KSL]] and developped until the end of 2004. Its The virgin name was CPCWRITE. For many years, CPCWRITE was left unfinished. In 2004, the grow of interest for the CPC machines in the internet pushed the development of ASCII Tools. The main task software was to create a set of tools to deal with big source code files like C, Fortran, Turbo Pascal, transferred from Windows or MSCPC-DOS Systems to Amstrad machinesWRITE. In 2004, the first simple version of ASCII Tools v.1 for CP/M plus was presented at the [[COM II|CPC Meeting II]] organized by [[TFM]]. The next version of ASCII Tools was included in [[Cosmos|COSMOS]] application in 2021. In 2026-2027 a new stand-alone version will be released for CP/M plus, which will support Text, Graphics and Page Switching.
'''Nowadays (2020), ASCII Tools have been further developed and included in the latest version of COSMOS (v.25[[Category:CP/2020) which can be downloaded directly from CPCWiki.''' <br><br>.M]]
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