Re: [PLUG] DESQview (was ... Byobu)

[JP Vossen via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Yeah there is at least one (very verbose!) Perl script floating around out there:

http://justsolve.archiveteam.org/wiki/WordStar
https://ataridogdaze.com/tech/wordstar-convert.html

```
open OUTFILE, ">out.txt";
open INFILE, "<in.ws";
while (<INFILE>)
{
  tr [\200-\377] [\000-\177];
  print OUTFILE $_;
}
close INFILE;
close OUTFILE;
```

I didn't bother because my `LESSOPEN=|/opt/bin/settings/lesspipe.sh %s` handled it well enough.


On 9/20/20 8:19 PM, Walt Mankowski via plug wrote:
> Thanks, that brought back memories. Even if it would be about a 3 line
> Perl script these days... :)
>
> Walt
>
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 06:13:46PM -0400, Steve Litt via plug wrote:
> > On Sun, 20 Sep 2020 15:19:57 -0400
> > JP Vossen via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Sigh, OK, I went down the rabbit hole looking for the batch files
> > > that ran that stuff.  I didn't find them, but I did find an "about
> > > me" from that time (1991-1992) in a _PC Buyers Guide_ I wrote (pretty
> > > sure in Wordstar, and I can't find a good converter for that,
> >
> > I discovered the following Turbo Pascal program that I created in the
> > mid 1980s and last modified September 1990, to turn a wordstar doc into
> > plain text. I'm not sure whether it respects hard paragraphs or not.
> > Try it with today's Freepascal.
> >
> > ===============================================================
> > program unws;
> >
> > var
> >     inname: string[40];
> >     c: char;
> >     i: integer;
> >     inf, ouf: file of char;
> >
> >
> > begin
...

Later,
JP
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