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FRENCHWP.DOC
Montréal, 23 August 1988
With utilities such as DOS-2-DOS or with a modem, it is possible
to convert Amiga Word Perfect files to MS-DOS WP files; lucky
english-speaking WP users can have the best of two worlds and don't
have to buy a PC clone to do buisiness.
Unfortunately, these utilities will not properly convert the
accented characters of other languages because the ASCII codes have
not been standardised. Obviously, a conversion program is needed.
AM-PC will do all of the 13 french accented characters both
ways. It is a C version of an earlier AmigaBASIC program. Why C ?
For a 60K file, this baby needs only 6 seconds instead of 12
minutes! The source code can be readily modified to accomodate
non-WP files or even other accented languages such as Spanish,
Islandic, you name it. Be warned that that some "invisible" ASCII
codes were shifted by -64 for conversion purposes.
For a conversion, first do the accented characters in Amiga mode
with AM-PC, then use DOS-2-DOS or a modem to convert the disk
format to MS-DOS. Here is how to use AM-PC: enter "am-pc" to get a
help screen (in French, bien sûr, mon ami).
TEMPLATE:
1> am-pc >Destfile Sourcefile n
where: * ">" redirects the output to Destfile. Without it, AM-PC
will print to the screen.
NOTE: Error messages will end up in Destfile. Check the
byte number of both Source and Destfile: it should be
exactly the same.
* Sourcefile is the file to convert.
* if n = 1, the direction is Amiga -> PC.
if n = 2, it is PC -> Amiga.
example:
1> am-pc >ram:cv1 df1:myfile 1
will convert "myfile"in drive df1: to "cv1"in RAM: from
Amiga to PC. To speed up conversion, do all the work in the
ram disk. It is 10 times faster than a disk drive.
For comments or more info, send a message.
-*=*- Michel Laliberté -*=*-