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From: monson@diablo.amd.com (Steve Monson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: SCRIPSIT
Keywords: Model II
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.154642.27750@dvorak.amd.com>
Date: 17 Jun 91 15:46:42 GMT
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OK, here's the scenario ... my father-in-law has an old Model II that he's
been using for about ten years. Now he has a new spiffy IBM PC type mcahine,
and he has a bunch of SCRIPSIT files. How can I get hold of documentation
on the format of those files, so I can write him a conversion program for
the PC? Our local Tandy guy wasn't too helpful (or interested, apparently).
Is there a central Tandy number we can call which will be of some use?

One real bottleneck is that he has only a single 8" floppy drive. Converting
the files to ASCII using SCRIPSIT's utilities would be possible, but
inordinately time-consuming. We'd have to split each file into smaller
pieces (can you say reformat disks?) since the disk must have enough room
for both the SCRIPSIT file and the ASCII equivalent. This can be a long and
dreary job for about 100 floppies.

I have tried transmitting the files over the phone lines to the PC, and
all the information is there, but there are mounds of junk that come along
too. I'd like to be able to determine what is SCRIPSIT formatting information
and how to convert the files to readable, properly formatted ASCII on the PC.

Or, say... are there any PC editors that understand this SCRIPSIT file
format? Maybe I couold use one of them to do the conversion.

Any help or suggestions?

I hope so,

Steve
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