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>Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
>From: aaa@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Simon Fowler)
>Subject: Re: OS/2 Developer's Electronic Magazine
>Sender: news@hpuerca.atl.hp.com ( News admin)
>Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:10:03 GMT
>Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Atlanta GA
>
>In article <19930122.084021.70@almaden.ibm.com>, pmuellr@vnet.ibm.com (Pat Mueller) writes:
>>  Also assuming no really complicated IPF markup, a
>> rexx program could be written to convert the .ipf file to a plain
>> text file.
>
>Does such a tool exist already?

Not that I know of.  But I've done stuff like this before.  It's not
impossible, and the less complicated the source langauge (IPF), the
less complicated the translator.  The PostScript converter would
be the >fun< one!  I've been thinking about it a little over the
weekend, looking through the IPF language docs.  I think it's certainly
do-able - the only concern with REXX would be performance - which
shouldn't matter much - you won't be converting stuff ALL that often.
I'll probably make a start on this, but it likely would be submitted
via the IBM EWS program, so it won't be available any time REAL soon.

Patrick Mueller                  addr:  pmuellr@vnet.ibm.com
IBM Cary, North Carolina         phone: 919-469-7242