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From: hall@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu (Marty Hall)
Subject: Re: Stripping / converting files made on a symbolics?
Message-ID: <DDB30B.1Gy@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu>
Organization: JHU/APL AI Lab, Hopkins P/T CS Faculty
References: <TFB.95Aug13123257@scarp.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 15:00:10 GMT
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In article <TFB.95Aug13123257@scarp.ed.ac.uk> tfb@ed.ac.uk (Tim Bradshaw) writes:
>I have some Lisp files created on a symbolics, which I'd like to be
>able to use on a Unix machine.  They have (at least) font information,
>and slightly strange newline conventions, and I suspect there are
>other odd (by unix standards) chars in there too.

Except for the fonts, I think you will be fine. We used to frequently
use the identical files on Symbolics and Sun/Lucid, taken off a
partition that was NFS-mounted on both machines.

Regarding the fonts, there is a Symbolics function called either
THIN-STRING or STRING-THIN that strips fonts out of a string. I recall
we used to convert files by reading lines in with READ-LINE, running
THIN-STRING, and then writing them back with WRITE-LINE.

Now that I have font-lock-mode on XEmacs, I don't even miss the
Symbolics fontification any more.
						- Marty
(proclaim '(inline skates))
