Legacy and file format issues

[Brian Yennie]

Richmond,

I don't think it's going to be that easy. If all that changed between  
versions was the short prologue at the beginning, why would they  
change the format at all? There is probably more to it than a simple  
find/replace on the front of the stack is going to fix.

Besides that, I don't see what you are trying to accomplish. If you  
don't own a current version of Rev, what is your purpose in trying to  
convert your stacks to the new format? And if you *do*, I believe  
saving in legacy format is a scriptable task.

HTH,
Brian

> So, couldn't resist it and opened a legacy format
> stack as a text file (i.e. imported it into field
> "fENTER") and tried this:
>
>   replace oldTEX with newTEX in fld "fENTER"
>
> where oldTEX is:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> # MetaCard 2.4 stack
> # The following is not ASCII text,
> # so now would be a good time to q out of more

> exec mc $0 "$@"
>
>
>                
    Í  TEST 
 à@    Ä  © m
ê
ê
>            ˇˇˇˇ     
cREVGeneral
>   
stackfileversion  2.7  Í    	@          
ê
ê
>
> and newTEX is:
>
> REVO2700
    Í  TEST 
 à@       © m
ê
êë
>  ˇˇˇˇ      Í    	@
> 
ê
êê
>
> and then exported the result . . .
>
> but RR could not open the result (which should, in
> theory, identify itself as a stack of the new format).
>
> err . . .
>
> bright ideas welcomed!
>
> sincerely, Richmond Mathewson
>
>
>
>
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