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- From: hermit@cats.UCSC.EDU (William R. Ward)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: help! ... please
- Message-ID: <HERMIT.92Dec19050343@am.ucsc.edu>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 13:03:43 GMT
- References: <sheun.724689454@barney>
- Organization: Computing and Telecommunications Services, UCSC
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- In-reply-to: sheun@cs.city.ac.uk's message of 18 Dec 92 14:37:34 GMT
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- In article <sheun.724689454@barney>, sheun@cs.city.ac.uk (Sheun Olatunbosun) writes:
- ) I would be very grateful if someone could take on this task for me. Had I
- ) a 1581, which I will buy soon, with big blue reader to do a particular
- ) conversion (my university uses PC's connected to the network), I would not
- ) have a problem.
-
- ) But as it stands, I've just grabbed some files - geostechref1.arc,
- ) geostechref2.arc and geostechref3.arc from the ftp site ccosun.caltech.edu
- ) under the directory /pub/rknop/geos/programmer. Since these
- ) files are encoded in PETSCII format, I am unable to read them at my UNIX
- ) terminal. Guess what I'm going to ask?
-
- ) Could some kind soul convert these files to ASCII format, so I can read them
- ) from my UNIX terminal as well as print them? I could e-mail you the relevant
- ) files to avoid the use of ftp to get them.
-
- Well, it wouldn't be hard to convert the files.
-
- If they're just straight PETSCII files (eg, SEQ files), and not
- something like GeoWrite or whatever, then it'd be pretty easy to use
- the UNIX "tr" command to fix it. Or write a C filter program, that'd
- be pretty straightforward.
-
- I think I wrote a DOS program to convert PETSCII <-> ASCII once. I
- suppose I could dig it up if you want. Mail me and I'll dig it up, or
- maybe just write one for the hell of it.
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