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From: ian@utcs.UUCP (Ian F. Darwin)
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Subject: Re: WordStar<-->Troff
Message-ID: <660@utcs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-May-85 19:05:37 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 24 19:05:37 1985
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Organization: University of Toronto - General Purpose UNIX
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The current (May/Jun 85) ish of Micro/Systems Journal
has two articles on decrypting WordStar files.
Neither converts to troff; both provide a good base.
One is in C, the other in a Pascal dialect.

To convert troff to wordstar, write the 20% of code that does 80% of the
job by writing an nroff terminal table and a small C postprocessor.
The nroff terminal table emits ^B for bdon and bdoff, \023
for iton and itoff, and straight ascii for everything else.

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