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From: morris@jade.jpl.nasa.gov (Mike Morris)
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Subject: Re: Turning Wordstar format into ASCII
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Date: 15 Feb 89 05:19:29 GMT
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>> 
>> I have on a UNIX system some files uploaded via kermit from a PC-compatible
>> in disgusting WordStar format.  I'm sure the translation to get rid of the
>
>Which version of WS?  if 3 or 4 just clip the high bit.  If 5 more work is 
>to be done.

Don't be too quick to do that!!  It's a common belief that zeroing the high
bit is all that is needed.  The codes for several of the punctuation
characters are different (soft hyphen <> hyphen+80h, but I'm not sure)
Also, in my conversion program I dropped all soft spaces.  (When I changed
from CP/M to PC-DOS I also changed printers.  The new one was wider, and
all the line length / smooth right margin stuff had to be changed, so
ragged right files were easier to move.


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