Re: DEC Runoff to any modern format conversion or DEC MSCP protocol specs

2015-06-05 Thread Richard Loken
On Thu, 4 Jun 2015, Paul Koning wrote: No escape codes. Just text, and return without line feed to overprint one line on another, to do underlining. If you don???t use underlines, the text is just plain text, suitable for viewing with ???cat??? or ???more???. But not: $ TYPE /PAGE

Re: DEC Runoff to any modern format conversion or DEC MSCP protocol specs

2015-06-04 Thread Mark Wickens
There is also this: http://www.decuslib.com/decus/vax87c/clement/runoff/aaareadme.1st Bonner Lab Runoff (RNO) Bonner Lab Runoff is a text formatter that, when used with your favorite editor, makes a complete word processor. Its syntax is almost a

Re: DEC Runoff to any modern format conversion or DEC MSCP protocol specs

2015-06-04 Thread Paul Koning
No escape codes. Just text, and return without line feed to overprint one line on another, to do underlining. If you don’t use underlines, the text is just plain text, suitable for viewing with “cat” or “more”. paul On Jun 4, 2015, at 5:01 PM, Mark Wickens m...@wickensonline.co.uk

Re: DEC Runoff to any modern format conversion or DEC MSCP protocol specs

2015-06-04 Thread Mark Wickens
If it produces DEC/ANSI escape codes I have a converter that will turn it into HTML? On 04/06/15 21:25, Paul Koning wrote: On Jun 4, 2015, at 3:53 PM, Mark Wickens m...@wickensonline.co.uk wrote: Someone (possibly me) surely can process the files with dec runoff directly? Doesnt it support

Re: DEC Runoff to any modern format conversion or DEC MSCP protocol specs

2015-06-04 Thread Peter Coghlan
Paul Koning wrote: On Jun 4, 2015, at 3:53 PM, Mark Wickens m...@wickensonline.co.uk wrote: Someone (possibly me) surely can process the files with dec runoff directly? Doesnt it support postscript output? Not any version I have ever seen; they all produce plain lineprinter output

RE: DEC Runoff to any modern format conversion or DEC MSCP protocol specs

2015-06-04 Thread Rich Alderson
From: Tom Gardner Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2015 10:47 AM I have multiple DEC Runoff (.rno extension) files for the manual on DEC's MSCP protocol. I'd like to convert them to a modern format. The manual is dated circa 1992 incorporating ecos thru MSCP23-4 and is revision 2.4 (or later) of

Re: DEC Runoff to any modern format conversion or DEC MSCP protocol specs

2015-06-04 Thread Pete Turnbull
On 04/06/2015 20:17, Paul Koning wrote: DECs Runoff is a markup language that sort of looks like an early HTML, so I suppose I could try a grep conversion to HTML, or just strip out the markup. A much closer relative is Unix “troff” format, which apparently goes back to something in Multics

Re: DEC Runoff to any modern format conversion or DEC MSCP protocol specs

2015-06-04 Thread Dennis Boone
I have multiple DEC Runoff (.rno extension) files for the manual on DEC's MSCP protocol. I'd like to convert them to a modern format. The manual is I think legalize said he wrote a converter once. I don't know if he published it. De

DEC Runoff to any modern format conversion or DEC MSCP protocol specs

2015-06-04 Thread Tom Gardner
Hi I have multiple DEC Runoff (.rno extension) files for the manual on DEC's MSCP protocol. I'd like to convert them to a modern format. The manual is dated circa 1992 incorporating ecos thru MSCP23-4 and is revision 2.4 (or later) of MSCP. What appears to be an early version (Apr 1982 rev

Re: DEC Runoff to any modern format conversion or DEC MSCP protocol specs

2015-06-04 Thread Mark Wickens
I can build the converter in pascal and run it against the files if it helps? Regards Mark On 4 Jun 2015 20:06, Tom Gardner t.gard...@computer.org wrote: Hi I have multiple DEC Runoff (.rno extension) files for the manual on DEC's MSCP protocol. I'd like to convert them to a modern format.

Re: DEC Runoff to any modern format conversion or DEC MSCP protocol specs

2015-06-04 Thread Paul Koning
On Jun 4, 2015, at 1:47 PM, Tom Gardner t.gard...@computer.org wrote: Hi I have multiple DEC Runoff (.rno extension) files for the manual on DEC's MSCP protocol. I'd like to convert them to a modern format. The manual is dated circa 1992 incorporating ecos thru MSCP23-4 and is

Re: DEC Runoff to any modern format conversion or DEC MSCP protocol specs

2015-06-04 Thread Jarratt RMA
I wouldn't mind running a file through runoff either, or building the Pascal code that was mentioned. It would be a good excuse to do something with one of my machines. Regards Rob On 4 June 2015 at 20:53, Mark Wickens m...@wickensonline.co.uk wrote: Someone (possibly me) surely can process

Re: DEC Runoff to any modern format conversion or DEC MSCP protocol specs

2015-06-04 Thread Paul Koning
On Jun 4, 2015, at 3:53 PM, Mark Wickens m...@wickensonline.co.uk wrote: Someone (possibly me) surely can process the files with dec runoff directly? Doesnt it support postscript output? Not any version I have ever seen; they all produce plain lineprinter output (with overprinting for