IBM Displaywriter to TeX

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From: Alan Whitton
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1986 13:20

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Hello,

Our company has several disks worth of files on PC disks, and I have been
entrusted (?) to translate these and transfer them onto our Plexus running
SYS III. Xmodem transfers them fine, but the files are in Displaywriter format
and I am having a problem translating them. I have figured out that the
characters are in EBCDIC so I translate the file using:
	dd if=<infile> of=<outfile> conv=ascii

which functions quite well. The problem now is all the control sequences that
are inherent to the system, such as: accented characters in french, and 
formatting info for each stream of text. A further complication to this
problem is that it is hoped that I can translate these files into a TeX 
usable format.

As of now I am blindly throwing out any nonprintable ascii characters and
tweeking by hand the output. 

Can anybody help me out there???

					Cheers

					alan whitton
					...!utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!grpthry!aw
					(don't blame me for this user id!)

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Subject: IBM Displaywriter to TeX
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