Short: AmigaFormats ex-Tasword ZX/SAM documents Author: simon@studio.woden.com (Simon N Goodwin) Uploader: simon studio woden com (Simon N Goodwin) Type: misc/emu Version: 1.02, 22 May 1999 Architecture: m68k-amigaos This is a program to convert fixed length line files for an Amiga. It is still notionally a beta but ready for Aminet users. Please get in touch with Simon with comments by email, if you use this. It was written to make it easy to read, edit and print Spectrum Tasword and MGT SamScratch files, from archives or from original disks read via Frank Swift's excellent Amiga XFS and SP-handlers. Most such files have fixed-length lines of 64 characters with no termination. This means they read and print as a diagonal mess unless first processed to convert them into normal text, in LF terminated lines of variable length. A side-effect of conversion is that extra spaces at the end of the lines are removed, so the converted file is normally shorter despite the extra line feeds. TasRead can also be used for other fixed-length formats, such as FORTH, which often uses 'screens' of 16 or 24 fixed-length lines, and can easily be modified for other line widths (e.g. 32 column Tasword or 85 column MasterScratch) if you have HiSoft BASIC or some other MBASIC/QBASIC compatible compiler. TasRead 1.02 tries to work out the line length from the total file length, after removing PLUS3DOS disk file and ZX82 emulation headers. This program is copyright by Simon N Goodwin, simon@studio.co.uk, first published in 1999, and may be freely distributed only with the complete documentation, BASIC source and standard Amiga icons.