perhaps writing out to JSON or XML then reading that back in?
perhaps the hardest part is “to create a program which will take a random tps file” as you need to be able to open and read this file without knowing the structure in advance. There used to be a library that did that - see
for info on my attempt to buy DynaLib many years back. There is plenty of information about the structure of a tps file so it should be possible to “roll your own” but perhaps more work than the OP wants to do: