Legacy and file format issues

Fri Sep 14 09:19:31 EDT 2007

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 $0 "$@"

                     TEST  @       m    
           &#711;&#711;&#711;&#711;     
cREVGeneral 
  stackfileversion  2.7      	@           

and newTEX is:

REVO2700      TEST  @        m          
 &#711;&#711;&#711;&#711;          	@         

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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