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ez2ascii: Converting a formatted file made in ez to Plain ascii
What ez2ascii is
This program strips out formatting put in by ez, and creates a plain ascii file for display on a character terminal like a DEC vt100. The input file is written to a output file in plain ascii format.
Starting ez2ascii
Type
ez2ascii infile outfile
If no outfile is not specified, output goes to the standard output.
If neither infile nor outfile is specified, input comes from the standard input and output goes to the standard output.
Warnings
Embedded objects are not converted but are replaced with an error message that looks like this:
An embedded object [foo] was here but could not be printed.
Any line longer than 80 characters gets an extra newline after the word ending that comes closest without going over 80 columns. This is fine for converting files formatted with ez, but often causes trouble if you try to use ez2ascii to convert a file you put ez formatting into by mistake.
Using ez2ascii as a filter
You can use ez2ascii as a filter.
For example, typing:
datacat mine1.ez mine2.ez | ez2ascii | page
will display what mine1.ez and mine2.ez look like in plain text.
Quick reference
ez2ascii [infile [outfile]]
Program Author
Wiliam D. Cattey, MIT Project Athena
Recent changes to ez2ascii
Version 2: This version takes one input file and allows the user to specify the output file, or to easily pipe output. The previous version would create an output file name from the input file name making it inconvenient to pipe output to other programs.
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