On 2/1/13, Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:

I guess Abelson sent a friend of mine a paper in TJX format. Or maybe the text formatter was called TJX? Does anyone know what this is? Any interesting history?

Apparently it's an archaic format(ter) before my time. I can't find anything on Google about it.

TaskJuggler, a project management tool - used to manage assignments, deadlines, projects, etc. among multiple people in a workgroup. Google search "TJX File Extension" and pick the 4th result (the one at taskjuggler.org), or for the uber-lazy: http://bit.ly/Wl0Ir0

This might be the PDP10 follow-on to TJ6: people.csail.mit.edu/bkph/AIM/AIM-164A-OCR-OPT.pdf --rwg (Experiencing a flicker of brain activity from Tastebuds' Zucchini Fish.)

I doubt it. But if you really suspect that, you should be able to cat the file through strings (or on Mac/Windows, change the extension to TXT and open in TextEdit/WordPad respectively) and if it's really a document, you should see text. Note that in the TJ6 manual they mention ASCII in a couple places, including a full ASCII character set table on page 19 and sample text in mixed-case on page 16, so your file is not SIXBIT-encoded or anything weird like that. -- Robert Munafo -- mrob.com Follow me at: gplus.to/mrob - fb.com/mrob27 - twitter.com/mrob_27 - mrob27.wordpress.com - youtube.com/user/mrob143 - rilybot.blogspot.com