Re: Looking for Meekins' Merlin2Orca converter

[Toinet <antoine.vignau@laposte.net>]

On 2 mar, 01:48, rich12345 <aiiad...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 1, 4:15 pm, Toinet <antoine.vig...@laposte.net> wrote:
>
> > Dear All,
> > I am looking for a usable version of Tim Meekins' Merlin 2 Orca
> > converter.
>
> > It can be found in asimov and some other places but I am unable to use
> > that version. It seems to be a raw extract of a old newsgroup message
> > and I cannot do anything with it.
>
> > Your help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance,
>
> > Antoine
>
> why not do it with BASIC?
>
> dim a$(1000)
> ?chr$(4);"open file"
> ?chr$(4);"read file"
> for i = 1 to 1000
> input a$(i)
> REM do something to convert ?tabs?
> next i
> ?chr$(4);"close file"
>
> i MADE a converter for 8 bit merlin, can't remember exactly what the
> conversion was

I thank you for your answer but I was not looking for a text converter
(Hermes or ShadowWrite would be sufficient) but for a source
converter.

There are several differences between Merlin and APW or Orca: label
declarations, external variables, variable type declarations, etc. It
is not just a matter of high-bit/low-bit and tabs.

I knew Merlin2Orca was one of those,

antoine