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Hi there guys.
I was hoping I could pick ya brains and get some help and pointers for an obscure issue that I'm trying to sort out. Issue: Recently I came across an old thread about trying to convert the articles in the Grapevine diskmags, to plain ASCII. https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=65149 It seemed to be a huge amount of work, as initially people were thinking of using OCR to capture the files, then convert them to ASCII. However H0ffman has created an awesome Windows script/CLI app that extracts the articles from the Grapevine bin files into separate files. These files can then be loaded into Powerpacker on an Amiga, un-packed, then converted into plain ASCII. This is a massive step in the right direction, and I've been converting some of these files into plain ASCII using the method above. However I was thinking that there must be an easier way to do this. Namely: Arexx. What I'd like to do: 1. Using H0ffmans script, extract the files. (Then using Arexx) 2. Take a dir of these extracted files 3. Load them into Powerpacker 4. Get Powerpacker to un-pack the files 5. Get Powerpacker to save the files out as ASCII text (Same name, but with a .txt suffix) 6. (Additional - If possible) When the files have been converted to text, there is still some latent formatting left in there - E.G. {, {1, {a, (curly braces with Nos or letters) These are formatting / control codes to tell Grapevine to show different colours or blinking text, etc. 6.1. Would there be a way to also strip these out ? I've experimented with the converted ASCII files in Linux (using the Kate text editor) and some basic find/replace and starting to look at some Reg-Ex, to try and improve and speed up the process (for removing the formatting codes). Questions: 1. How would I go about doing this (using Arexx) ? 2. Has anyone tried anything similar ? / How did you achieve it ? TIA for any help or advice |
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