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When I convert an ISCII (PC-ACII) file created using GIST card with A2IWIN and open it in Write, I get only junk. What went wrong in my conversion?

April 26, 2017a2iwin card convert file gist iscii pc-acii write

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When I convert an ISCII (PC-ACII) file created using GIST card with A2IWIN and open it in Write, I get only junk. What went wrong in my conversion?

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A. GIST Card uses two different codes, ACII (also called as 8-bit ISCII), and the PC-ISCII. Text which is entered in the DATA PAGE (8-bit), or in the PC-ISCII mode of the SP or the GIST Card ALP, needs the PC-ISCII button to be ON (by default ISCII is selected) for A2IWIN. You can also use the GIST Code CONVERT utility, which is there in your ISM directory for converting between different codes. Other than GIST and ALP, there are some other packages available in the market which uses the ISCII code. But these may be the old version, ISCII-86. You can use the CNVISCII utility available in the ISM directory to convert them to the ISCII-88, which is the ALP and the ACI2ISF standard. You can check out the code of a particular file by running the TELLCODE utility followed by the file name which you want to convert.