[xubuntu-users] editing any file in xubuntu

[John R. Sowden]

On 4/8/23 12:51, Nino Pereira wrote:
> https://ataridogdaze.com/tech/wordstar-convert.html
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> (found by googling for 'wordstar to utf")
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>
> On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 3:45 PM John R. Sowden 
> <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
>
>     while using DOS,I could use any editor to exit any file.  I might
>     trash
>     the file when I saved it, such as a dbf  fiile.
>     Now in xubuntu I cannot seem to edit a Wordstar file with the high
>     bit
>     set because any editor that I have tried (about 6) all check to
>     see what
>     the UTF code is and reject editing, or present me with a blank screen.
>
>     I tried a program (iconv?) to ee what the UTF code it, but a
>     couple of
>     then give the  "Data" instead of the utf code.
>
>     Been using xubuntu for about 20 years, but now I need to edit
>     hundreds
>     of Wordstar 5.5 files.
>
>     Any help?
>
>     John
>
>     I had a problem running the python program (Xubuntu could not find
>     the program even though
>     it was in the same directory as the WS programs.  I also could not
>     set it to run as a program in permissions.
>     I gave up.
>
>     Actually what I was trying to find  was an editor that would only
>     edit certain types of files, vs an editor that would edit any kind
>     of file.  Search failed to find that. I am now trying to get
>     dosemu2 running (problem) and so I could read the file using
>     Wordstar and save it as a "non-document " file, they edit it with
>     fonts etc. \using Libre-Office.
>
>     John
>
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