HP-71 Compu-LS module

[Dave Frederickson]

(03-22-2017 07:52 AM)J-F Garnier Wrote:  I believe that the *.t71 was used as a reminder that these files come from the HP71. Or maybe the tool used to extract the files did the text file conversion automatically.
Actually, I never used so much this collection of SWAP individual files (except for the text files!), in the past I found that some files are corrupted (don't remember which) and I preferred to directly access the disc LIF images.
And yes, there are nowadays a lot of different tools and ways to manage these tasks around loading/transferring files between our HP machines and the computer world. That's great!

I think I read somewhere that the LIF SWAP archives were created using HP-IL Link. This tool will automatically convert between LIF1 and DOS text when transferring files which would explain why the *.t71 files are standard DOS text. It can also convert 71 DATA files to/from text. *.t71 is a convention devised by the archive creator for distinguishing the various filetypes in the archive.

I have been using HPDir with the -c(onvert) option for transferring text files between DOS/Windows and LIF disc images, but lately I've switched to pyILPER as a front-end for Joachim's updated LIFUTILS.

Dave