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From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: SCRIPSIT
Keywords: Model II
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.141924.22943@bilver.uucp>
Date: 18 Jun 91 14:19:24 GMT
References: <1991Jun17.154642.27750@dvorak.amd.com->
Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
Lines: 37

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

Well Steve, you do have some problems.

Even the Scripsit for the '286 PC's and the Unix/Xenix version for the
'286's and '386'w wouldn't read the format for the TRSDOS or RS Model 16
versions of Scripsit.

I had one client that had bunch of things he needed to transfer (on a xenix
box) so we just printed them all - and turned off the printer.   Then we
copied the resultant ascii files to the new machine.

There is/was a conversion for one of the Scripsit versions in Word Perfect
format about a year or so ago - from information I remember seeing on the
net.

Can you print to the serial port and capture on the PC.   Just an idea.




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