Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ridenour From: ridenour@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Will Ridenour) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Converting CPM file -> DOS Keywords: Osborne, Wordstar Message-ID: <1990May4.183638.25546@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 4 May 90 18:36:38 GMT References: Distribution: usa Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 46 In article ccoombs@pilot.njin.net (Cliff Coombs) writes: > >Here was my question of the week: > > A Faculty person's Osborne computer died on it was her >doctoral disertation (approx 300 pages) it was done on wordstar but >the Osborne used CPM OS. Can we convert her files to a DOS format? > >My answer was "I think so". So how do I do it? Ideas? Suggestions? > >Thanks, Cliff > If you have WordStar under DOS then no file conversion is necessary. Dos WordStar uses the same file format as CP/M WordStar. If this is the case then your only problem is reading the Osborne disk. There products available to read CP/M disks... the ones I have used are UNIFORM (commercial) and 22disk (shareware I believe, freely available from simtel20 and most any where else that handles DOS public domain and shareware software. UNIFORM will read osbourne disks, I know. I don't remember whether 22disk does but I'd be surprised if it didn't. If you don't have WS under DOS, you'll need to run the file through a filter that sets the high bit of each character to 0. There are utilities available to do this or it is a fairly trivial c or assembly language program. In C, just read in character c and then do c = c | 0x7f and then output the character. In assembly, read the character into al and then do or al,07fh and then output... hope this helps will ridenour national center for supercomputing applications University of Illinois champaign, Ill. only problem is reading the Osborne disk.