Lotus Manu. files human readable

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From: kadie
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1987 16:08

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                                           February 25, 1986
                                           Urbana, Illinois

                Lotus Manuscript stores files in readable 7-bit ASCII

          Recently, while playing around with a version of Lotus
          Manuscript, I accidently loaded a Manuscript file in to an ASCII
          editor. To my surprise I could read it. This is in contrast to
          Microsoft Word, in which the file completely unreadable.

          So what? you ask. Well, this means:

                1) It should be easy to manually convert a file to
                Manuscript
                2) Using SED/LEX/YACC it may be possible to automatically
                convert Manuscript files, to TeX or Troff.

          As a sample of what these files look like, here is this note in
          Manuscript format. I have changed control characters (e.g. cntl-Q
          is ^Q)

          Carl Kadie
          University of Illinois

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*R1
MDThis is the document description
MAThis is the author's name
MR1003
PDMonth D, Year
PTH:MM am/pm
P1HL
P1HC
P1HR
P1FL
P1FC
P1FR
P1C33
FHA1
FTT2
FSH150
FST200
FSS200
FI3
FLN99
DDGeneric
DNGeneric
DP0,8500,11000
NST150
NSN150
YCL99
OE1
OS1
*B0
S
BL40
TFebruary 25, 1986^QUrbana, Illinois^Q
BFJ2
TLotus Manuscript stores files in readable 7-bit ASCII^Q
TRecently, while playing around with a version of Lotus Manuscript, I accidently loaded a Manuscript file in to an ASCII editor. To my surprise I could read it. This is in contrast to Microsoft Word, in which the file completely unreadable.^Q
BFT14
TSo what? you ask. Well, this means:^Q
BFT14
BL7
T^?^A1) It should be easy to manually convert a file to Manuscript^Q2) Using SED/LEX/YACC it may be possible to automatically convert Manuscript files, to TeX or Troff.^Q
BFT14
TAs a sample of what these files look like, here is this note in Manuscript format. I have changed control characters (e.g. cntl-Q is ^Q)^Q
BFT14
TCarl Kadie^QUniversity of Illinois^Q
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Subject: Lotus Manu. files human readable
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