*SHOW Translate into DIST format.

*COMMENT : HEADING My_Title. Data converted #TIME #DATE.

*LISTING FILE todis.lst

*INPUT FILE specs

*TRANSLATE INTO DIST FORMAT

*COMMENT : EXCLUDE CHARACTERS 78-86

*OMIT TYPESETTING MARKS

*COMMENT : Activate the following directive to use the abbreviated
taxon names instead of the full taxon names.

*COMMENT : CHARACTER FOR TAXON NAMES 89

*DIST OUTPUT FILE ditems

*INPUT FILE items
