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- From: pmuellr@vnet.ibm.com (Pat Mueller)
- Message-ID: <19930124.214021.607@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 00:35:30 EST
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Developer's Electronic Magazine
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- >Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- >From: aaa@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Simon Fowler)
- >Subject: Re: OS/2 Developer's Electronic Magazine
- >Sender: news@hpuerca.atl.hp.com ( News admin)
- >Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:10:03 GMT
- >Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Atlanta GA
- >
- >In article <19930122.084021.70@almaden.ibm.com>, pmuellr@vnet.ibm.com (Pat Mueller) writes:
- >> Also assuming no really complicated IPF markup, a
- >> rexx program could be written to convert the .ipf file to a plain
- >> text file.
- >
- >Does such a tool exist already?
-
- Not that I know of. But I've done stuff like this before. It's not
- impossible, and the less complicated the source langauge (IPF), the
- less complicated the translator. The PostScript converter would
- be the >fun< one! I've been thinking about it a little over the
- weekend, looking through the IPF language docs. I think it's certainly
- do-able - the only concern with REXX would be performance - which
- shouldn't matter much - you won't be converting stuff ALL that often.
- I'll probably make a start on this, but it likely would be submitted
- via the IBM EWS program, so it won't be available any time REAL soon.
-
- Patrick Mueller addr: pmuellr@vnet.ibm.com
- IBM Cary, North Carolina phone: 919-469-7242
-