Old C code

[Dazed_75]

Yes, outputting XML style text IS trivial.  Knowing what all to put there
is an issue I should be able to resolve by exporting something from
SubSurface.  Whether there are tools, style sheets or anything to assist
with converting my data to that form is a bigger question.


On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 7:27 AM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com <
kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:

> 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.
> ET
>
>
> 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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