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

[Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Seems like you could replace that script with tr(1) and redirection. I
confess I don't know tr very well, but maybe something like this?

$ tr '\200-\377' '\000-\177' <in.ws >out.txt

On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 01:31:03PM -0400, JP Vossen via plug wrote:
> 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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