CONVERT - russian codepage converter, by Alexander N. Andreyev

(c) Alexander N. Andreyev, 1997
Last update: Wednesday, August 06, 1997
Licensing: freeware
Supported platfoms: Windows NT, 
	but can be recompiled for any Unix platform as well

Package (convert.zip) contents
==============================
	convert.cpp - C++ source code
	convert.exe - Win32 (x86) executable
	 koi8.cp, 866.cp, 1251.cp - codepage files for KOI8-R (Unix), 
		866 (Alt/DOS) and cp1251 (Windows) 
	dos-win.bat, win-dos.bat,
	koi-win.bat, win-koi.bat,
	dos-koi.bat, koi-dos.bat - 6 command scripts for Windows NT
	roundtest.bat - testing script for Convert
	readme.txt - this manpage 


Installation
============
 Extract "convert.zip" into any suitable folder,
 e.g. C:\Programs\Convert
 Copy scripts (.bat files) into any directory 
 in your path, e.g. C:\WINNT
 Set environmental variable
  CONVERT_HOME
 to the Convert's folder.
 Run roundtest.bat on any russian file in 866 codepage
 and check whether it is the same.

Usage 
=====
1. Scripts for Windows NT
         dos-win <file>
         dos-koi <file>
         win-dos <file>
         win-koi <file>
         koi-dos <file>
         dos-win <file>

 These scripts convert the file from one 
codepage to another replacing the original file.
These scripts use CONVERT_HOME variable (see above)
to locate codepage files.


2. Program itself
	convert <cp1> <src> <cp2> <dest>

- src and dest are source and destination filenames
- cp1 and cp2 must be .cp files
  containing source and destination codepages

Obtaining Convert 
=================
 You can download last version of convert package 
 using the following URL
    http://alex.motor.ru/downloads/convert.zip

 Author can be contacted by e-mail:
	alexander@vvv.srcc.msu.su
	horatio@deol.ru

Future Plans
============
1. Conversion between Unix and Dos text file formats (newline conventions)
2. Automatic recognition of source file's codepage
3. Linux release
4. Recognition of HTML META-tags specifying document's codepage

and anything you may ask for
