TDF Czar

TDF Czar is designed to work with tab-delimited text files. With it, you can open, view, sort, select and output such files, including the ability to populate a template from tab-delimited data. This last function can be used to build and periodically re-generate Web pages, for example, from tab-delimited data. All of these program functions can be scripted for easy replay.

What is new in this release:

• Modified program to reset input options to initial default values after playback of a script, to ensure stable execution of following actions.
• Modified program to automatically add the default file extension of '.tcz' when recording a script file, if no extension is specified.
• Corrected a bug that caused new group breaks to be ignored when a higher level break had occurred, but the lower level data happened to be the same.
• Added two command line arguments, to allow TDF Czar to be run completely from the command line, without any graphical user interface. The first argument is specified as "-q" and tells the program to run in "quiet mode" -- that is, without any GUI. The second argument specifies the location and name of a script file to be played, the location being relative to the TDF Czar program.
• Corrected a bug that caused a global variable to be set to 0 (zero) whenever a String (non-integer) value was assigned to it.
• Corrected a bug that prevented a global variable from being set to a non-blank value once it had been initially set to a blank value.
• Corrected a bug that resulted in an unrecoverable error when a length variable modifier was longer than the starting variable. Modified logic so that the variable will be padded with zeros on the left in this situation.
• Added the ability to invoke a data normalization routine, as demonstrated with a special routine for Boeing Mesa IT.
• Modified the program to treat a run-time parameter script file strictly as a file, and not a URL. This cleared up some problems that were occurring when trying to pass the name of a script file that was not located on the path of the program (on a separate volume or server, for example).
• Corrected a problem that would prevent lookup files from being found in same directory as the script file when the program was being invoked from the command line.
• Modified to write log file to disk when program is invoked in quite mode.
• Corrected a recently introduced bug in the 2.6 beta version that caused the following file or directory name, rather than the current one, to be returned with each record when reading a file directory.
• Added the letter 'i' as a template variable modifier to indicate that the associated case conversion character ('u' or 'l') should be applied only to the initial character of the variable.
• Removed space in name of executable in order to prevent problems on some platforms with execution via a batch script.
• Added fields to the data dictionary that allow a field to be calculated, based on other fields and possibly other files. The first calculation function added is "lookup", which allows a value in an associated tab-delimited file to be looked up, based on key values in the primary file. See the description of the Input tab in the Operating Guide for more information.
• Improved Help/User Guide functionality to more consistently launch the user guide in your Web browser under Mac OS X.

Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.1 or higher