On 30-Jun-15 19:34, Kevin Handy wrote: > Some time ago, I wrote a DecMate II word processing conversion to Word > Perfet converter. I was wondering if it should be included in the > simtools distribution, before it disappears entirely off the net. > > It origanally ran unger MSdos, and is written in C. This was a > complete reverse engineering job, so it may have a lot of prblems. It > had some conversion issues (DecWord and WordPerfect had different > ideas on formatting), but it got the text out. I guess you could call this a weak objection - SimH tools have been tools for getting things into and out of SimH formats/containers. And a few for working on SimH itself.
Another option is to create a repo on GitHub for it. They're free and easy to setup. If you're not willing to do that, I guess it's better to save it in the "wrong" place than to lose it. I wouldn't object to a pointer somewhere in SimH - it could use a directory of related repositories. (DECMate has some truly odd formats; I once wrote a WPS to DSR converter...) In any case it would be better if you could take the time to make (sure?) it run(s) under at least one more modern environment - Linux, VMS, Windows... Portable code is a lot more useful and lasts longer... That's my 3 cents; others may see things differently.
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