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From: pozar@hoptoad.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Wordstar filter for Osborne needed
Message-ID: <1759@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Fri, 6-Feb-87 22:44:20 EST
Article-I.D.: hoptoad.1759
Posted: Fri Feb  6 22:44:20 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Feb-87 04:52:26 EST
References: <3383@cae780.TEK.COM> <91@asi.UUCP>
Reply-To: pozar@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Pozar)
Organization: Syncstream (San Francisco)
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In article <91@asi.UUCP> metro@asi.UUCP (Metro T. Sauper) writes:
>In article <3383@cae780.TEK.COM>, alan@cae780.TEK.COM (Alan M. Steinberg) writes:
>> Does anyone have a WORDSTAR filter program (public domain) for use on the 
>> Osborne 1.  I need something to download WORDSTAR files without all the 
>> control and spacing junk that is included in the normal WORDSTAR format.
>
>If I remember right, pip has an option to strip off the high bit of all 
>characters as it copies files.  Using this option, will convert your wordstar
>file into a more traditional format.  Then the only thing you need to do
>is delete the dot (.) commands and print formating characters (^S,^B,etc.)
>


    You do remember right.  The command for striping the high bit off of
a file would be:
                  PIP filename.NEW=filename.OLD[z]

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