This archive contains a team of programs to help you maintain your fortune
cookie database:

    "CookieTool" itself eliminates duplicate entries,
        sorts alphabetically or by size if you wish.
    "CdbSplit" extracts parts to a separate file, by keyword, by size,
        by number, or as groups of 'similar' cookies.
    "CdbDiff" compares two cookie databases and builds a list of those
        cookies only present in B, but not in A.

They are intended for users of "Cookie", "IntuiCookie" (both available
on Aminet, util/misc/), or generally for any plain text cookie
database with entries separated by "%%" lines.  They are nice for
crunching your cookie collection by a few KByte of duplicate stuff, but
also for splitting it into seperate files, for example extracting
quotations or dumping those cookies too big to be fun to read.

Note that "CookieTool" and its companions know how to handle the database
itself, but not how to update the corresponding index file (also called
'hash file').  That means you still need "cookhash" (which should be
included with your cookie display program).

New in V2.5:
    Added the CdbDiff tool.

New in V2.4:
    Can now handle various cookie file formats (separated by %%, by %,
    or simply one cookie per line).
    Fixed some minor (?) bugs, concerning (among others) the "delete
    abbreviations" feature and the command line parser in CdbSplit.
    Caution: The -a option in CookieTool has been renamed to -b !!!
    (-a now means "append", for both CookieTool and CdbSplit.)

New in V2.3:
    Minor changes and enhancements for easier building under Linux
    (which is what Miroslaw Baran actually did), clarified licensing
    conditions (is now GPL).

New in V2.2:
    Options for sorting by size, searching for combinations of keywords,
    and for extracting without modifying the original database.

New in V2.1:
    Fixed a severe bug that would overwrite an input file even when
    the new file was incomplete due to "Disk Full".

New in V2.0:
    Much easier to use (and a little safer, I think), but quite different,
    too.  Make sure you read the docs when upgrading from V1.x!
    More sort options, can delete 'abbreviations', can extract groups of
    'similar' cookies, sorting and deleting now always in *one* pass.
    When choosing among 'almost identical' cookies, those towards the
    top of the input file will survive.  (This was left to chance in
    earlier versions.)

"CookieTool" and "CdbSplit" are distributed under GNU General Public
License version 2 or later, C-source is included.


You might also be interested in "OrySplit", which can convert Usenet
Oracularities (from the rec.humor.oracle newsgroup) to cookie format.
Check out: util/misc/orysplit.lha

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[generic]                11548   20400  56.6% -lh5- 2245 Mar 22  2001 cookietool/cdbdiff
[generic]                 1849    5268  35.1% -lh5- 199d Mar 22  2001 cookietool/cdbdiff.c
[generic]                12049   21644  55.7% -lh5- b597 Mar 22  2001 cookietool/cdbsplit
[generic]                 3493   11934  29.3% -lh5- a9dc Mar 18  2001 cookietool/cdbsplit.c
[generic]                 2944    9614  30.6% -lh5- ed6f Mar 22  2001 cookietool/compress.c
[generic]                  982    2246  43.7% -lh5- e406 Mar 22  2001 cookietool/compress.h
[generic]                12387   21900  56.6% -lh5- 3ce5 Mar 22  2001 cookietool/cookietool
[generic]                 2456    8107  30.3% -lh5- ad58 Mar 22  2001 cookietool/cookietool.c
[generic]                 1738    4880  35.6% -lh5- c717 Feb 17  2001 cookietool/cookio.c
[generic]                  845    1927  43.9% -lh5- 393f Mar 18  2001 cookietool/cookio.h
[generic]                 7014   17992  39.0% -lh5- 4902 Jun 25  2000 cookietool/COPYING
[generic]                  222     499  44.5% -lh5- 2831 Mar  4  2001 cookietool/makefile
[generic]                 6796   17138  39.7% -lh5- a833 Apr  5  2001 cookietool/README
[generic]                 2187    6613  33.1% -lh5- 5d19 Mar  4  2001 cookietool/strstuff.c
[generic]                 1023    2230  45.9% -lh5- 2b3e Mar 22  2001 cookietool/strstuff.h
[generic]                  274     628  43.6% -lh5- 3448 Apr  5  2001 cookietool.info
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 Total        16 files   67807  153020  44.3%            Apr  7  2001