Software, Conversors

A few programmes that allow you to convert files amongst different formats. Specialy, you can convert file formats typical in the QL world to formats more known in other environments.

A common task among programmers is to port files from one operating system to another, to be able to write multiplatform software. This usually leads to two problems: the big amount of files to be copied and the fact that text files had diferent conventions in diferent systems: character map and end of file mark.

These two programmes try to solve both problems for the Linux, MS-DOS and QDOS operating systems. Comprime (Compress) brought together a number of files from an operating system in just one file, easy to transfer to another system, and Expande (Expand) rebuild all files in another system, converting as appropiate text files and with no modification of binary files. The process is with data compression so the resulting file is as little as possible.

You can download just one version of the programme, as with any one of them you can recompile sources in another operating system. The difference is that in each version I offer only binaries for its operating system.

The programmes are written in ANSI C and screen messages can be in English or Spanish, depending on how be compiled.

Lenguage	Operating system	Version	File	Size
Spanish	GNU/Linux	2.1	CoEx2e1l.zip	35679
	MS-DOS		CoEx2e1m.zip	51535
	QDOS		CoEx2e1q_zip	54335
English	GNU/Linux		CoEx2i1l.zip	35650
	MS-DOS		CoEx2i1m.zip	51491
	QDOS		CoEx2i1q_zip	54301

dBase files has header and records. Records are text, so they can be coded with different character maps; however, header has to be considered as binary data. With this programme you can convert the character map of the records amongst that of PC and that of QL. You can get, as well, a dBase file from an Archive file.

Operating system	Version	File	Size	How it looks
MS-DOS	1.1	Cvdb1e1m.zip	52257	conversordbase.png
QDOS		Cvdb1e1q_zip	51636

This programme converts files created with the word processor Perfection (by Digital Precision Ltd.) to Rich Text Format (RTF) files, which can be read by almost all word processors.

Operating system	Version	File	Size
MS-DOS	1.1	PRTF1e1m.zip	57102
QDOS		PRTF1e1q_zip	53010

This programme converts files created with the word processor Quill (by PSION Ltd.) to Rich Text Format (RTF) files, which can be read by almost all word processors.

Operating system	Version	File	Size
MS-DOS	1.1	QRTF1e1m.zip	42156
QDOS		QRTF1e1q_zip	37047

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