On Tuesday, June 30, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Timothe Litt wrote: > 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.
I agree completely with Tim's suggestions here. > (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... Another good idea. - Mark _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
