DEC Runoff to any modern format conversion or DEC MSCP protocol specs

[Mark Wickens]

I can build the converter in pascal and run it against the files if it
helps? Regards Mark
On 4 Jun 2015 20:06, "Tom Gardner" <t.gardner at computer.org> wrote:

> Hi
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> I have multiple DEC Runoff (.rno extension) files for the manual on DEC's
> MSCP protocol.  I'd like to convert them to a modern format.  The manual is
> dated circa 1992 incorporating ecos thru MSCP23-4 and is revision 2.4 (or
> later) of MSCP.  What appears to be an early version (Apr 1982 rev 1.2) is
> at
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> http://www.textfiles.com/bitsavers/pdf/dec/disc/UDA50/AA-L619A-TK_MSCP_basFn
> s_82.pdf
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> I've searched for a convertor without much luck,  there is a VMS Pascal
> converter at https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/rnototex which
> converts to LaTex which can then be converted to pdf, but I don't have any
> DEC equipment.
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> Anyone know of a converter or perhaps other already converted manuals at
> other revision levels (e.g. rev 1.2   at link above)?
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> If not, anyone running VMS Pascal  or OpenVMS v6.1 (or later) willing to
> try
> a conversion to LaTex?
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> DECs Runoff is a markup language that sort of looks like an early HTML, so
> I
> suppose I could try a grep conversion to HTML, or just strip out the
> markup.
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> Any other ideas?
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> Tom
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