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Hi Amy, Want to share a few files? *Thomas San Filippo* (he/him/his) *Systems and Educational Technology Liaison* *DEAL Senate* Schedule an appointment. <https://bit.ly/meetwiththomas> Madeleine Clark Wallace Library <https://wheatoncollege.edu/academics/library/>, G19 Wheaton College <https://wheatoncollege.edu> 26 E. Main Street, Norton, MA 02766 <https://goo.gl/maps/d5JvoKZUEXy> (508) 286-5601 <+15082865601> Twitter: @WallaceLibrary <https://twitter.com/WallaceLibrary> | Instagram: /wallacelibrary <https://www.instagram.com/wallacelibrary/> On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 4:52 PM McDonald, Stephen <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > You believe these are font files but you are trying to save them as text? > You can't save a font file as a text file. They don't have textual > content--they are specifications for how a specific font is rendered at > various font sizes. What do you want to do with these files? > > Steve McDonald > [log in to unmask] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Amy > Schuler > Sent: Friday, May 28, 2021 3:31 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [CODE4LIB] Corel display font files, part II > > Hi there, > me again, still working on Corel display font files. A bigger job than I > thought. Hoping someone can shed some light on this jumble of files and > provide some guidance in converting/migrating them to new formats. > > A typical subfolder has 25 files, named according to this format: > [filename].[two digit file extension signifying year of data collection], > for example GCANPR.93. All files are purportedly WordPerfect, but with > this file extension, they are actually display font files generated using > WordPerfect. You see, the documentation identifies these files as WP > files, but when I open each file in LibreOffice or Notepad it says it was > "saved as ASCII/DOS text"- not sure if this makes any difference to my > efforts to convert. > > Anyway, I ran these two little commands on my Windows 10 machine, For /R > %G in (*.93) do REN "%G" "93%~nG.93" = this renames the file so that it > retains the year 1993 in the file name (I haven't figured out how to do > this as a batch for multiple years, so I have to change the year XX a few > times). Then I run this command on all renamed files to generate text > files, For /R %f IN (*.*) do REN "%f" *.txt . > > This seemed to work smoothly until I found a single file that was all > wingdings (but seemingly no different from the others - I checked the > original, it was all text not spreadsheet), and I found a couple files > where some text was lost in conversion. > > Any thoughts? I am sure my commands are rudimentary, don't judge me, I'm > new to this stuff. I guess I'm wondering if the problem is in my choice of > CL utilities (is my use of REN the wrong thing), syntax, or if it is the > vagaries of these files that is screwing things up? > > THANKS! Feel free to contact me off list. > A > -- > > Amy C. Schuler (she/her) > Director, Information Services & Library > > Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies | 2801 Sharon Turnpike | Millbrook, NY > www.caryinstitute.org >