Zouplaz <pouet@pouet.com> wrote:
> Hello, I've copied old Merlin source code I wrote several years ago. When I 
> try to open them with TeachText I only see garbage... I remember that 
> merlin saved the files with a bit 8 set to one or something like that.
> 
> How can I convert them (sure I could write a little C app under linux) 
> but... May be it has been allready done by somebody else !

You need to strip the high bits off.  It's actually not pure high ASCII,
because some characters (e.g. space) are stored without the high bit set.

(CiderPress will identify them and convert them automatically, but that
doesn't do you much good on a Mac.)


Under Linux, or anything else with a C compiler and a command line:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
    int ic;
    while ((ic = getchar()) != EOF)
        putchar(ic & 0x7f);
    return 0;
}

compile it as "histrip" and use "./histrip < infile > outfile".

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