donna warned...

> just be aware that frombyte only generates an 80-byte text file.  i'm
> not sure if the frombyte'd file is numbered or not....  there are
> programs out there that are expecting 'their' input files to be
> unnumbered (setparms.arpa.sys is one of them, for example) and maybe
> even 72 bytes wide.

well, the MPE style numbering is in the last 8 columns, so
a /bin/tobyte -at will make them visible and part of the text
to be edited...

so only UNNumbered input files make sense, unless you want to
manually take care of not breaking the numbering when inserting
lines ;-)


> i seem to recall a contributed program from ted ashton that was a
> 'smarter' frombyte.  does anyone else?  is it on jazz?    - d

i believe, ted's program was called BYTECNVT,
but i don't know where the latest version resides
on the web (no longer @ southern.edu, i think)

lars (lowercase ;-)

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