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?

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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
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