ANSI2ASC.EXE
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The REXX-application ANSI2ASC for OS/2 does just what it is named (and vice versa) - it 
converts a ANSI-coded textfile to ASCII-code. In fact it would not be quite as easy, if 
the complete ANSI-definition had to be handled. This thing was made to come up with those
trilliards of Win-generated textfiles. Being german it is really annoying to see the
"wrong" umlauts.

The app takes one parameter (a filename) - it is ready for drag/drop while sitting on the
desktop or while running. By default it writes to a separate file with extension .ASC or .ANS.
This can be changed to override the original file. Before writing the user is asked if he wants
to see the result. If "Yes" the write operation can be canceled while inspecting the result.
In addition to getting the value from and writing to a file the whole operation can act
upon the clipboard.

All that is pretty self-explanatory. Therefore no help was integrated into the app.

The code is pure and simple REXX plus OS/2 (and VisproREXX-GUI). The exe is compressed by
the fine utility LxLite. Using LxLite for decompressing the code is available near the
end of the file.

Have fun

A. Kieser


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