Converting EIA Binary .DRL N/C Drill Files from Circuitmaker 2000 to Text Format

A long time ago, just after the invention of solder, my company used a CAD system known as Circuitmaker 2000 (not the same as the current system by the same name). We've still got a few PCB layouts that have not been updated to our new system.  I tried to re-order some PCB's that were done in the old system, only to discover that most of the PCB fabrication companies we use can no longer read the old "EIA binary .DRL" N/C drill files. The old CAD system does not have an option to generate the N/C drill files in text format, which is what most current CAD systems use.
The Gerber files generated by the old system are fine- the problem is with the N/C drill file only.Is it possible to convert the binary N/C drill file to text format? How?Thanks for any insight on this!-Rick  

RickI have an older  version of CircuitMaker and TraxMaker, prior to the version 2000. The TraxMaker PCB layout program automatically generated a "EIA binary .DRL" N/C drill file and a "ASCII text drill file with a .TXT" file extension.The manual for CircuitMaker 2000 - TraxMaker http://docs.oshpark.com/resources/TraxMaker_Manual.pdf                page 9-23
says that it also does this. I have never used the CircuitMaker 2000 version but you might look to see if there was a .TXT file generated.

Thanks Jack-Yes- there is a .TXT file, but it doesn't contain the drill size data.  That's in the .TOL file.  I could edit the .TXT file and add the contents of the .TOL file, but I've got two things keeping me form doing that.  First, I'm a terrible typer, and second, I'm left-handed.  You should see what my comments in this forum look  like before I run the spell checker on them!  BTW- I have at least a couple dozen files I need to convert.I'll edit the files manually as a last resort, but the probability of me screwing them up is pretty high.  I'll bet somebody out there knows how to convert the binary files.-Rick

Rick I found this, says it converts EIA RS224 .DRL files  to ASCII.http://www.huckfeldt.eu/RS224_E.html
Had to translate to English.

If the program Jack found doesn't work, you could use a text processing program (with a script) to merge the two text files. It would be a bit tricky to set up for the first one but since you have a couple dozen to do it's much better than typing the data in manually.I've used AWK to do this type of thing in the past but it's been a while. There is probably something better out there for this now.

Jack & Elizabeth- Thanks very much!Jack- I got all excited when I saw your post.  At least I know it is possible to convert from the binary version to the text version.  I think it will work but I'm going to have to dig in a little deeper. Looking at the converted text in Notepad I see everything all run together with no carriage returns or line feeds.  Looking at it with Wordpad I do see carriage returns. The alpha characters are all lower case and in all the text versions of the DRL files I've seen they have been upper case.  I don't know if the N/C drill systems care about case or not.At this point it looks like I have three options-(1) See if the NC drill systems will accept the files from the converter Jack found as they are.(2) Since the source is included I could call my buddy who knows all about code and get him to fix it.(3)Use Elizabeth's suggestion  and merge the two text files.Regardless, it looks like Ive got some good options. I LOVE THESE FORUMS!!!Thanks, folks!-Rick