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atu0830
atu0830

Reputation: 405

A old text file with special format

I am working on HP-UX project, there are a old document. Can open it with vim, but there are some special character among text. For example: 

.P
   "xxxxx"
.AL 1 10
.LI  "xxx"
.H 3 "xxxx"

It looks like html but not be html. Is it possible convert it to modern document?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 82

Answers (2)

Kannan Goundan
Kannan Goundan

Reputation: 5232

Looks like troff. Install GNU troff (Groff) and try:

groff -Thtml -pet -mm input.mm > output.html

Upvotes: 2

jimm-cl
jimm-cl

Reputation: 5422

I guess more details are needed - some ideas you may try:

First, issue a file command for the file. It will probably tell you what type of file is.

jim@debian:~$ file foo.bar
foo.bar: ASCII text

Second, search for similar files and see if there's a program to open them in the machine - maybe, they are binary files for some program out there, and you just don't know which one.

Last, but not least, I believe you are right - looks like HTML code to me, so maybe this is used by an application as a kind-of intermediate language, that is parsed later to transform it to real HTML.

I hope this helps!

Upvotes: 0

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