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- 15 July 1990
-
- This program will convert AmigaDos textfiles to MS Dos readable
- textfiles. It was written in C and compiled with Lattice v5.4
-
- If you are a Sysop who makes textfiles available to
- your users you may have heard some of your IBM people scream about
- not being able to read the files.
-
- You must launch the program from the CLI with the command:
-
- CONVERT path/filename
-
- Where filename is the file you want to convert.
-
- If you just type CONVERT you will be given a template anyway so don't
- worry about remembering how to launch it.
-
- I have to 'fess up. I wrote the little ARexx program which does
- the same thing but it is entirely too slow. I felt obligated, since
- that program is now in the public domain, to make ammends.
- This program is at least 20 times faster than its ARexx equivalent.
-
- There is really nothing mysterious about what has to be done
- to enable our good IBM friends to read our significantly more
- efficient text files. MS Dos needs to see a Control-M or RETURN
- or CHR$(13) (pick your poison) at the end of each line. AmigaDos
- doesn't need such things so, naturally, it doesn't put them there.
-
- The program simply reads each line of a text file and appends
- a RETURN character to the end of each line. It doesn't hurt the
- readability of the file from the Amiga standpoint but it must be
- there for those wonderful IBM's.
-
- I put this program in my C: directory since I have so many alias
- assignments that my Shell-Startup is getting rather long.
-
- If you are not situated in the directory where your 'to-be-converted'
- file resides then you must include the path for the thing to work
- properly (as usual). The program will write a new file which is named
- 'filename.CVT' where filename is the name of your source file.
-
- Forgive the slightly esoteric nature of this document but I am
- sure that your SysOp status includes a relatively high degree of
- familiarity with the Amiga and its magnificent operating system.
-
- I offer this program to any who find it useful absolutely free of
- charge. I must say, however, that this apparent incompatibility
- between IBM and Amiga had me seriously perplexed for quite a long
- time. My nose was a little bent because of the industry-wide
- use of the IBM over the obviously superior Amiga so I was reluctant
- to ASK any IBM folks what they thought the problem might have been.
-
-
- W.C. (Bill) Bowling
- The Mechanical Engineers' BBS
- Simi Valley, CA
- 805-522-4435
-
- Give me a call. I have quite a few IBM files and am willing to
- do swaps. All PD, Shareware or personally developed stuff only.
-