[Simh] simh tools

[Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm]

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