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From: tcs@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US (Ted C. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: Need WordStar utility
Summary: PIP is the answer
  converting WordStar files to text (ASCII)
Message-ID: <4474@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US>
Date: 13 Dec 90 16:26:01 GMT
References: <16529@s.ms.uky.edu>
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Organization: Sacramento Public Access, Ca. USA
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> Files created with WordStar must contain some binary characters, which
is
> ruining the "raw" upload of program code to the uC board.
> 
Actually, I doubt that anyone created such a program for CP/M as PIP was
available to all way back in the begining.  The command to use is 
PIP B:newfile.txt=A:oldfile.ws[Z]<cr>.
 
In the DOS world, a couple of utility programs are available.  For
example, XWORD converts WordStar to a number of different formats,
including ASCII.
 
Ted Smith