[Simh] simh tools

[Timothe Litt]

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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