Nothing would surprise me about what's in E00 files, but I don't
think you want to change NULLs to return characters. If the E00
file is compressed, you don't want to change anything. If it's an
ASCII file, and you want to convert it from UNIX to DOS, then you
want to change the "newlines" (a linefeed charactor in DOS) to
carriage-return/linefeed pairs. If it's ASCII and there ARE
actual nulls in there then it's not really ASCII for one, and
they probably have to be changed to spaces.
It doesn't look like unix2dos.com or dos2unix.com works in Win95
at least. These tools are what's known as DOS filters, but when I
tried them they didn't seem to do what they are supposed to do
(i.e. they didn't filter anything).
I wrote a program called "chop.exe" that does work. It's floating
around the net now on one or two US govt. sites (try
ftp://ftp.blm.gov/pub/gis/chop.zip). The Zipped version contains
the C source code. It works as a DOS filter, e.g.:
chop 80 < input_file > output_file
The 80 means to break up the file into 80-byte lines, the
brackets are not "brackets" per se but are used to tell the
program that input_file is to be directed into chop and
output_file is directed out (it reads input_file and writes
output_file).
- Bill Thoen
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>
> Hello there,
>
> I have been trying to convert some .e00 Land Use / Land Cover data for
> Colorado, Utah and Wyoming using MI 5.0 / ArcLink with absolutely NO
> success. I either need to find this data in a .TAB or .SHP format or find
> out exactly how to convert the Unix NULL characters to return characters.
>
> I have also downloaded the unix2dos.com utility from the archive page and
> had no success with that - I am losing hair faster than normal today ...
> can someone PLEASE help me.
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
>
> And for Steve Wallace - an extremely late addition to the 'wish list' -
> MAKE SURE THE MI ADD ON UTILITIES WORK!!!!!!
>
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