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Richard D. Newell
Utah Power & Light
1407 W. North Temple
Rm T125-49
Salt Lake City, Ut 84116
(801) 535-4914
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CONVERT and CONVERT2 can be used to convert most of the MS-DOS files
on the 84B DECUS tape [240,*] into a format (using KERMIT) usable on
an MS-DOS machine.
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CONVERT takes the distributed files which contain embedded FILES-11 record
information, strips out the record structures, and writes the
files out in a block structured format.
CONVERT2 is a mutation of CONVERT to handle the files in [240,10] which
have a record size of 510.
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Rebuilding CONVERT and CONVERT2
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Run the procedure CONVERT.CMD or CONVERT2.CMD to compile and link the
selected program.
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Using CONVERT
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Run CONVERT.  CONVERT will prompt for the input file specification
(must be inclosed in single quotes 'file.typ') and the output file
specification (same form as input).
After CONVERT completes you can then transfer the files via KERMIT.
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Note: If you should run CONVERT against a converted file it
will abort with an input conversion error.
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Using CONVERT2
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CONVERT2 can be used to convert the files in [240,10] to a useable format
for KERMIT and MS-DOS.
These files had a slightly different format from the other MS-DOS files in
[240,*].
First locally assign DD: to the source disk containing the file or
files to convert (I.E. ASN dd_#_#:=DD:).
Run CONVERT2.
CONVERT2 will then prompt for filename.typ.
The source file is expected to be DD:[240,10]filename.typ and
the output file will be SY:<UIC>filename.typ.
After CONVERT2 completes you can then transfer the files via KERMIT to a
MS-DOS system.