File converter (was Re: IE wordlist?)

Amanda Babcock>>>>>>
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Paul Bennett wrote:

> I've found this:
> http://www.ntu.edu.au/education/langs/ielex/HEADPAGE.html
> which may or may not be news and/or of interest to some or less of the
> listmembers.
Does anyone have this list in real ASCII?  It says it's in ascii, but it's
^M's only, and so has no line feeds in unix.
<<<<<<

Slightly Off:

It's trivial to make a program that takes any file that's "nearly PC text" and
turn it into something more readable.  I made one specifically to deal with this
file (in all of 5 minutes), but it'll work on many word-processor formats and
semi-binarified digests, as long as you don't mind hunting manually to seperate
the signal from the all the noise in such files.  I can't promise it'll work
with accented text (in fact I can almost guarantee it wont), due to the variety
of codepages (and so forth) out there.  I can post it seperately to any
interested parties, it's a PC-Exe that should work on everything from Granny's
8088 to the latest Quad-Athlon megabeast, as long as it's running an ms-dos-like
operating system (MS-DOS, PC-DOS, DR-DOS, Win9x, WinNT).

Of course, if we were all using a "real" OS (Unix) it'd be a one-liner...

This is *not* an Open Source project, more from shame over shoddy-looking code
(and the fact that it's in QuickBasic) than any sense of having done anything
unique <GGG>

Requests for changes will be considered, without any promise of including them.

While I'm on the subject, would anyone appreciate a program to "Romanise" a
Unicode UTF-8 file into 7-Bit PC-Ascii?  I've been thinking about writing one,
but I need a stronger reason to start a project of this size than just my own
idle curiosity.





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