aw@grpthry.UUCP (Alan Whitton) (08/21/86)
Hello, Our company has several disks worth of files on PC disks, and I have been entrusted (?) to translate these and transfer them onto our Plexus running SYS III. Xmodem transfers them fine, but the files are in Displaywriter format and I am having a problem translating them. I have figured out that the characters are in EBCDIC so I translate the file using: dd if=<infile> of=<outfile> conv=ascii which functions quite well. The problem now is all the control sequences that are inherent to the system, such as: accented characters in french, and formatting info for each stream of text. A further complication to this problem is that it is hoped that I can translate these files into a TeX usable format. As of now I am blindly throwing out any nonprintable ascii characters and tweeking by hand the output. Can anybody help me out there??? Cheers alan whitton ...!utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!grpthry!aw (don't blame me for this user id!)