textlif75 - a filter to convert an ASCII file to a HP-75 text file
textlif75 [-n] <LIF filename> < Input file > Output file
textlif75 -?
textlif75 is a filter which generates a text file for the HP-75. The filter reads plain text from standard input and writes the LIF file header followed by the converted HP-75 text file to standard output. This file type can be used on the HP-75 only. The maximum line length of this file type is 255 characters excluding end of line char(s). textlif75 adds a line numbering starting with zero with an increment of one.
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-n |
Get the linenumbering from the input file. The line numbers must be the first token in each line of the input file. They must be in the range 0-9999 and in consecutive order. Exactly one space seperates the line number from the following text of the line. | ||
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-? |
Print a message giving the program usage to standard error. |
The HP text file format is documented in page 107 and 111 of the HP75 Description and Entry Points documentation.
If demo.txt is an ASCII text file then
cat demo.txt | textlif75 DEMO | lifput lifimage.dat
will put the HP-75 text file with the name DEMO into the LIF image file lifimage.dat
textlif was written by Joachim Siebold, bug400@gmx.de using code from Tony Duell, ard@p850ug1.demon.co.uk and has been placed under the GNU Public License version 2.0