Re: how to list text files?

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
>> I thought about these lines as I didn't expect CiderPress to know
>> everything (though it comes close ;o).
> 
> Merlin Pro (8-bit) always tacks a ".s" onto a source file name, so
> it's an application convention, not just a programmer convention.

Merlin-16 seems to do it as well.

I put something together that seems to work.  It does a quick scan of
the file's contents to see if it's high ASCII with the occasional
low-ASCII space, and that a fair percentage of lines either start with
a space or a full-line comment ('*').

It tends to miss on files that are nothing but equates, since almost
every line starts with a label, so there is room for improvement.

The reformatter has different "confidence levels".  Correct format with
filename ending in ".S" gets a "yes", correct format with no ".S" gets
a "maybe", ".S" alone gets a "probably not", and neither gets a "no".
"Yes" and "maybe" cause it to be used as the default conversion for
files of type TXT, "probably not" is non-default but still available,
and "no" means it's not in the drop-down menu.

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