I was rung by Martin Biddle, a "Professor of mediaeval archaeology"
at
Oxford. He does work with the Winchester Research Unit.
That rang a bell, and I found that I had repaired a QL in Nov 1988. It
was great to see the QL after 21 years, and all it needed was a kbd
membrane. He wants files transferred to PC format (8-(#
The QL had been used for many many years and there are maybe 80
cartridges to transfer.
Apparently the work is academically very important and there are no
other computer based backups.
The files seem to copy OK (format ram1_mdv1_ is the way) so far. I
have
though to convert Quill files and export Abacus.
For .doc, last time I added a special character at the end of every
paragraph. I then made a printer driver as follows and printed to a
file:
End of line -> SPACE
"Special character" -> CR/LF/CR/LF
£ -> chr 156
Anything else recommended? I cannot find the driver I made.
Thanks again Daniele. Qemulator has rescued some important work.
If you have the time, Tony, try Geoff Wicks's QL2PC for transferring
QL DOC files. Free to download from
http://members.multimania.co.uk/geoffwicks/downloads.htm . It will
convert DOC (and other QL formats) to RTF, preserving formatting. RTF
will of course load to most Windows word processors at least (don't
know anything about Macs).
Second choice would be Textidy, which will convert to plain text and
you can "batch" many files to convert in one go.
Failing that, your method is as good as any, substituting space for a
single end of line, preserving paragraph breaks. Although it won't
preserve most other formatting of course unless you can enter suitable
codes for bold etc in the driver.
Dilwyn Jones
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