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Wayne,
        The conversion is of course in NB4/Lingua, not in NB3/SLS (the
older version couldn't have had the ability to convert to an
as-yet-undeveloped version...)

        Just use the menu for File-Import-V3.0 Multilingual NB to
convert old SLS files. And hope the old file hasn't got corrupted with
age.

        We haven't talked a lot about data integrity, but as programs
and storage media are upgraded/replaced, the older versions do become
obsolete. Even while we still have that old 5-1/4" drive around (I won't
mention 8" disks or CP/M disks of many flavors), if we don't actually
use the disks, they deteriorate alarmingly. Before all that magnetic
coating crumbles beneath precious old files (or stray magnetism
scrambles bits on still physically intact disks), make sure you're
converting precious old files to current formats and copying them to
fresh disks periodically (every 1-3 years), lest one day you find some
product of great labor gone to dust or electronic heaven. It turns out
that papyrus, and maybe even high-acid paper, was much more durable than
our current storage medium of choice. Granite tablets, anyone?

        Dorothy

On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Wayne Meeks wrote:

> Looking up something in my Orbis notes, I became aware that Greek text in
> some entries wasn't displaying properly.  Traced this to one particular
> file (all the notes I took in 1992!), in which it turned out the <<LAx>>'s
> were missing altogether.  Can't imagine how this happened, but I suspect
> somehow this file got skipped when I converted from SLS to Lingua
> (remember that 3.0, I think it was, had a utility to upgrade SLS files to
> Lingua?)--though in that case shouldn't there have been <<MDx>> deltas in
> expanded view?  And how could I not have noticed it in six years?
>
> Be that as it may, the real question is, any simple way (or even a
> slightly complex way!) of getting that stuff back into proper Greek?
> (Inserting the <<LA3>> by hand doesn't do it: result is gibberish.  At
> present, what appears on screen is, for most but strangely not all
> characters, the corresponding Roman letter on the keyboard.  I no longer
> have the 3.0 installation disks (they were 5 1/4"), and as far as I can
> see the SLS-Lingua facility is not in the later versions.
>

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