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From: bill@camco.Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: SCRIPSIT
Keywords: Model II
Message-ID: <1083@camco.Celestial.COM>
Date: 18 Jun 91 16:41:59 GMT
References: <1991Jun17.154642.27750@dvorak.amd.com>
Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
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In <1991Jun17.154642.27750@dvorak.amd.com> monson@diablo.amd.com (Steve Monson) writes:

>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?

The SCRIPSIT files on the Model II had all documents in a single
file and dedicated the entire disk to SCRIPSIT.  There used to be
thriving business recovering SCRIPSIT disks where people had
clobbered the boot tracks by forgetting to turn on the external
disks before booting the system.

I think there was a utility to convert SCRIPSIT II to Xenix
SCRIPSIT documents on the Tandy 16/6000s SCRIPSIT-16, and I have a
program I wrote to convert SCRIPSIT-16 to WordPerfect 4.2.  If I
remember correctly you had to convert from the early versions of
TRSDOS to TRSDOS 4.x before you could do the Xenix conversion.
I would have to drag out my old manuals to figure out the exact
procedures for the SCRIPSIT-II -> SCRIPSIT-16 conversion.

As for a Tandy number to help, I think your're probably out of
luck there.  I couldn't find anyone at Tandy who knew anything
about the internals of Xenix SCRIPSIT when I was writing my
SCRIPSIT->WordPerfect conversion program and I had to figure out
the document coding myself (not a fun job).

Bill
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