covert "c program text" file to ASCII?

[Dan Alexander]

Anyone know how to convert a file from "c program text" to a plain old "ascii text" file? I have some old "xmail' files I need converted! Any help eould be appreciated!

Thanks..

[Jean-Louis Phelix]

hi,

I think that you can't "convert" a file, but you can perhaphs change the rules to decide what kind of file it seems to be :

- Have a look at the "file" command man page
- make a backup of /etc/magic
- change or add rules to make system guess what you want (there are a lot of comments and examples int the /etc/magic file)

Regards.

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

not sure what you're looking for, but try

strings filename.c

dos2ux filename.c

Later,
Bill