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Re: File conversion
« Reply #2 on: May 4th, 2010, 2:38pm »
Disappointing but I understand. I will convert my data files to your format. Sadly no-one has come up with a ready made solution. VirtualAcorn is to my mind the natural step between a 'real' RISC OS machine and 'Windows'.
The method is slightly tricky. The VA file is called eg LODATA,ffd. (If you 'look' in Notepad you will see it is backwards with 2 extra characters and presumably a control character. Print it out and it looks OK ). Copy this somewhere safe and change the name to LODATA.DFS. Run that through FCONVERT.BBC and call it LODATA.DAT. 'Look' in Notepad and it seems OK but its not! Printing it out shows extra blank lines at start of the file. Load it into an array (I 'fiddled' the program I am working on) and save it excluding the unwanted lines to say LOODATA.DAT. Job done!
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JGHarston Guest
Re: File conversion
« Reply #3 on: Aug 6th, 2010, 2:22pm »
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