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Roger Smith Software
ConvPCD
Version 1.0
Copyright (c) 1994 - Roger Smith and Margueritta Brigance
Small Print
The information in this manual is furnished for informational
use only. Roger Smith, Margueritta Brigance, and Roger Smith
Software assume no responsibility or liability for any errors
or inaccuracies that may appear in this manual. The software
described in this manual is furnished under license and may
only be used and copied in accordance with the terms of the
license.
License and Warranty Information
ConvPCD is copyrighted. ConvPCD is owned by Roger Smith and
Margueritta Brigance and is protected by copyright laws and
treaties. ConvPCD is offered with no warranty.
ConvPCD is freely available. You may make copies and distribute
ConvPCD as long as you follow this license agreement. Under
this license you may:
o use ConvPCD
o make unmodified copies of ConvPCD for use by another
party
You may not:
o use, copy, modify, or transfer copies of ConvPCD except as
provided in this license
o reverse engineer or decompile ConvPCD executable files
o sublicense, rent, lease, or assign ConvPCD
o sell ConvPCD
Pfaff and PC-Designer are trademarks of Pfaff. ConvPCD and
Oratorio are trademarks of Roger Smith Software.
Copyright (c) 1994 by Roger Smith and Margueritta Brigance.
Published by Roger Smith Software, P.O. Box 308, Mary Esther,
FL 32569. All Rights Reserved.
Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................1
System Requirements...................................1
Installing ConvPCD....................................1
Using ConvPCD.........................................2
Getting Help..........................................2
Examples..............................................2
Error Messages........................................3
Introduction
Pfaff's PC-Designer 3.0 software stores stitch files (.PCD and
.PCQ) in a binary format. The binary format makes the files
much smaller than the text files used by earlier versions of
the program. But these files are not compatible with earlier
versions of the PC-Designer program.
The earlier versions of PC-Designer used text files to store
the designs. These text files occupy more disk space than the
new binary files, but they offer the advantage of being "human-
readable." As text files, they may be viewed using a text
editor or the TYPE command. They are also suitable for posting
in messages for transfer through an on-line service.
ConvPCD converts binary PCD and PCQ stitch files to text files.
The text files have the same format as stitch files created by
the earlier versions of PC-Designer and may be read by all
versions of PC-Designer including version 3.0.
System Requirements
To use ConvPCD you need the following:
o An IBM PC or compatible
o MSDOS or a compatible operating system
o At least 400K of free memory
o At least 200K of free disk space
Installing ConvPCD
To install ConvPCD:
o Copy the file CONVPCD.EXE to a directory on your hard
drive.
o If you would like to be able to run CONVPCD from any
directory, edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT file and add the
directory where CONVPCD is located to the PATH if it is
not already in the path. See your DOS manual for
information about how to modify AUTOEXEC.BAT and the DOS
path.
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Using ConvPCD
To run ConvPCD, enter the command:
d:\dir\CONVPCD infile outfile
where
"d:\dir\" is the drive and directory where you installed
CONVPCD.EXE. If the current directory contains CONVPCD.EXE
or the directory containing CONVPCD.EXE is in the DOS
PATH, you do not need to type the drive and directory to
run CONVPCD.EXE.
"infile" is the name of the file to convert.
"outfile" is the name of the new file to create.
The file names for "infile" and "outfile" must be different.
If the file specified for "infile" does not exist or is not a
binary or text stitch file, an error message is displayed and
the program quits.
If the file specified for "outfile" already exists, it will be
overwritten.
If no output file is specified, the text of the stitch file is
displayed on the screen.
Getting Help
Enter the command
CONVPCD
to display a summary of the instructions for running ConvPCD.
Examples
To convert a binary stitch file named BIKE.PCD to a text file
named BIKE2.PCD you may use the command:
CONVPCD BIKE.PCD BIKE2.PCD
To convert a binary stitch file named ROSE.PCQ to a text file
of the same name you may use the following commands:
CONVPCD ROSE.PCQ TEMP.PCQ
COPY TEMP.PCQ ROSE.PCQ
DEL TEMP.PCQ
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The first command runs ConvPCD to read ROSE.PCQ and write the
text to the file TEMP.PCQ. The second command copies the text
file over the original ROSE.PCQ file. The final command deletes
the temporary file.
If you find that you are often converting a binary file to a
text file of the same name, you may wish to create a DOS batch
file that executes the above commands on a specified PCD or PCQ
file.
To create the batch file, enter the following lines at the DOS
prompt:
COPY CON CPCD.BAT
CONVPCD %1 TEMP.XXX
COPY TEMP.XXX %1
DEL TEMP.XXX
Press control-Z (hold down the Ctrl key and press "Z") after
entering the last line.
To use the new batch file, use the command:
CPCD filespec
where
"filespec" is the name of the file to convert.
Error Messages
Could not open input file
An error occurred while attempting to open the input file.
The most common cause of this error is that the specified
file does not exist.
Input and output file names must be different
The input and output file names are the same. This error
message is displayed if you specify the same file for
input and output.
Could not open output file"
An error occurred when attempting to create the specified
out
put file. The file name may not be a legal DOS file name
(see your DOS manual) or you may have specified a
directory that does not exist.
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Not a PCD or PCQ file
The input file's format is not recognized. The file
specified as the infile is not a PCD or PCQ file.
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