The Regnus Parser For DOS
About
The Regnus parser for DOS allows you to generate text from Regnus scripts within a DOS environment, either using a simple user interface within the application, or directly from the command prompt using command-line parameters.
The parser will open a script file specified in its command line, and will enter the interface if no label is specified, or generate text and then exit otherwise. For example, the following at the command line would load the script "Proverbs.rsf" and enter the interface:
Regnus Proverbs.rsf
To specify a label, simply include that label's name in parantheses in the command line. For example, the following would load the script "Proverbs.rsf", and immediately output text generated from the Label "Wise Proverb" before exiting:
Regnus Proverbs.rsf (Wise Proverb)
When using the parser this way, remember that the results can also be written to a text file! The following command would write the result of the label "Wise Proverb" from the script "Proverbs.rsf" to the file "SavedText.txt":
Regnus Proverbs.rsf (Wise Proverb) => SavedText.txt
Using this functionality is of course very useful if using the parser to generate text from a script as part of an automated process, such as when run from another application in order to produce and load random text content (for example in order to control random output from an IRC bot!)
To discuss this parser, or to make feature requests or bug reports, please visit its forum.
Note: the Regnus Parser for DOS supports legacy DOS CP437 character encoding; the parser does not support UTF-8 character sets, so scripts using extended unicode characters may display incorrectly in this parser!
Information & Download
- Parser Version
- v1.2.12
- Regnus Specification
- v5.5
- Download
Version History
v1.2.12
- Updated program to use the latest version of the Regnus Parser for QB4.5.
v1.2.11
- Updated program to use the latest version of the Regnus Parser for QB4.5.
v1.2.10
- Updated program to use the latest version of the Regnus Parser for QB4.5.
v1.2.9
- Updated program to use the latest version of the Regnus Parser for QB4.5.
v1.2.8
- Updated program to use the latest version of the Regnus Parser for QB4.5.
v1.2.7
- Updated program to use the latest version of the Regnus Parser for QB4.5.
v1.2.6
- Updated program to use the latest version of the Regnus Parser for QB4.5.
v1.2.5
- Updated program to use the latest version of the Regnus Parser for QB4.5.
v1.2.4
- Updated program to use the latest version of the Regnus Parser for QB4.5.
v1.2.3
- Updated program to use the latest version of the Regnus Parser for QB4.5.
v1.2.2
- Updated program to use the latest version of the Regnus Parser for QB4.5.
v1.2.1
- Corrected handling of the "$" RTC.
v1.2.0
- Updated parser to support Regnus specification 5.2
- Improved helpfulness of script error messages.
v1.1.1
- Fixed a serious bug causing errors when handling RATIO qualifiers.
v1.1.0
- Completely redesigned the file-reading process.
- Heavily improved the aesthetics of the interface (and added system beeps!)
v1.0.0
- First release.