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Title: World integrated nuclear evaluation system [electronic resource] : WINES

Original diskette files: All diskettes were mounted on a 5 1/4" drive of a Windows 98 PC and the diskette files were copied to the PC hard drive. To preserve the original file content, all files were transferred to a UNIX server in binary format and retain their original time and date stamps.

Processed documentation file: The DOS WordPerfect installation manual was translated to portable document format (PDF) with Adobe Acrobat. PDF output was checked to ensure that the entire document was translated and that formatting was preserved.

Processed data files: The DOS program WINES91.EXE was run according to the instructions in the installation manual:

WINES91 <WINES.DAT WINE2NFA.DAT WINE2123.PRN> WINES91.OUT
Three output files were created. These ASCII files were examined with Perl "cio" (check-it-out) to identify extraneous control and high ASCII characters. Nulls (octal 0), backspaces (octal 10) and form feeds (octal 14), were replaced with a blank using Perl "fix". DOS carriage returns were removed with UNIX "tr". The main data output file WINE2123 was saved with a .CSV file extension.

The data table WINES91.OUT was compared to the original data table WINES.OUT to ensure data output was created correctly. The main data file WINE2123.CSV is in ASCII CSV format and can be imported into spreadsheet or database software. The data table WINE2NFA.DAT is the input data table created by the executable program.


 

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