Old C code

kitepilot at kitepilot.com kitepilot at kitepilot.com
Fri Jun 28 07:27:17 MST 2013


XML is trivial stuff <partialtruth>(to a point)</partialtruth>.
If you can output text, you can output XML.
How do you need to output the XML to make it usable for your next input is a 
different story.
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Dazed_75 writes: 

> Thanks for the offer.  We could also just chat sometime. 
> 
> Looks like I will need to take my existing data which is in one or more
> data files and output it in some form of XML which I know next to nothing
> about.  I'll be looking for tools and/or tutorial type stuff on that. 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 5:10 AM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com <
> kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote: 
> 
>> I'll be glad to give you a hand when/if the time comes.
>> Gotta get my scuba cert too...
>> ET 
>>
>>
>> Dazed_75 writes: 
>>
>>> As I said, I was looking over some old C code from my DOS/Windows time
>>> about 25 years ago.  I finally found most of what I needed so the main .h
>>> include file will compile without error.  It was not as bad as I had
>>> thought.  The biggest thing that was confusing me was the plethora of
>>> include files and architecture variations I did not have to deal with back
>>> then.  Trying to find where something is typedef'd today is a lot more
>>> complex.
>>> Nevertheless, if I continue this project I may be asking for some
>>> assistance from time to time.
>>> Basically, I wrote a scuba diving "log" program called "Dive-In" back
>>> around 1988 for the same reasons Linus Torvalds did in the last few years.
>>> Mine was better than SubSurface in a several ways and SubSurface is better
>>> than Dive-In in a number of ways.  I still use Dive-In  and have around
>>> 780
>>> dives in it, but I have to run it in DosBox or WINE and that causes some
>>> issues for me.  I'd like to export the data to a format that SubSurface
>>> can
>>> import and that is essentially the project.
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