More Success

It has been another successful day at the code face. 

The old word-processing directives(*) that the Gorse Fox had used were similar enough to HTML to allow him to do a simple edit to convert the old directives to something that a web browser could handle. This enabled him to process all the files at once, look through the web pages created, and save them as PDFs... job done.

The other set of files that needed attention were the FFT files. These were already formatted as they were "Final Form Text". For the Gorse Fox's needs all he had to do was strip out the printer directives and convert them to text files. Done.

As usual, when developing code, the Gorse Fox learned several new things, hit several brick walls, and found circumventions for all the issues he uncovered.

There was a bit of a panic when the list for tomorrow's football was full and the Gorse Fox was placed on the waiting list. He decided that he would go and use the running track if places didn't become available. Fortunately, they did. Just as he was preparing supper an email arrived to say that a place was available, so the Gorse Fox leapt at the smartphone app and slotted himself into the session.

(*) The Gorse Fox should probably point out that this scripting language was designed to take text in, what was essentially, punch card format and format into documents that looked properly typeset. Why? Because when it was first written, there was no Microsoft Word, AmiPro, WordPro or whatever. Remember the Gorse Fox has been developing solutions since the early 1970s... long before there were PCs or even screens that did anything other than emulate 80-column punched cards.