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From: den@hpfinote.HP.COM (Don Novy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: ATASCII to ASCII
Message-ID: <19810005@hpfinote.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Nov 89 16:21:45 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard CICD
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  As far as conversion from ATASCII to ASCII for UNIX, I have done the reverse
operation. The only thing I changed was the end of line character. UNIX (at
least HP-UX) uses a carriage return while ATASCII uses octal 233. I have
converted files from HP-UX to ATASCII with the following simple command:

cat $1 | tr "\012" "\233" > $1.atr

  This simply lists the file and translates carriage returns (octal 012) to the
ATASCII end of line (octal 233). It also changes the file name by adding the
".atr" suffix.

  It would be rivial to run this conversion in the opposite direction to get
files to a UNIX system.

Don Novy
Hewlett-Packard