Sydex
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Eugene, OR 97405
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OLICVT
OLICVT is a "clean-up" program for Olivetti ETV-250 .MWP files
transferred from CP/M to DOS format by 22DISK. The result from a
straight-across transfer to DOS is not very usable; this very
short program processes the .MWP files contained on the ETV-250
diskettes to a more-or-less true ASCII representation. OLICVT is
invoked from DOS as follows:
OLICVT MWP-file-name
or, if no "special effects" notation is required in the converted
document:
OLICVT /s MWP-file-name
An input file name extension of .MWP is enforced, and a trans-
lated file having the same name, but an extension of .ASC is
produced. The quickest approach to translating the files on an
entire diskette would be to copy all of the .MWP files using
22Disk into a hard disk subdirectory, then to run OLICVT on them
en masse. Suppose, for example, that the hard disk subdirectory
is named C:\TEMP. You could then translate all of the Olivetti
ETV-250 files in this subdirectory with the following DOS com-
mand:
OLICVT C:\TEMP\*
It's possible to make the whole affair a one-step command process
by creating the following DOS batch file (let's call it OLI.BAT)
CTOD /OLI3 B:*.MWP C:\TEMP
OLICVT C:\TEMP\*
DEL C:\TEMP\*.MWP
We assume here that your 3.5" diskette drive is B: and that
OLI.BAT, 22DISK and OLICVT reside in the same subdirectory.
You'll find that most documents have been translated perfectly.
There are a few functions peculiar to the ETV-250 word processor
and fonts that may cause some of the page and line breaks to be
slightly off. There are no exact correspondents in the IBM PC
character set to certain special characters in the Olivetti
character set. Where possible, the closest equivalent from the
PC character set is substituted. In the few untranslatable
cases, the name of the character, enclosed in brackets ([]) is
inserted. In addition, typographic directions, such as [begin
underline] will be inserted in the same manner, unless the /s
switch has been specified in the OLICVT command line, as noted
above.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Sydex.