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September 26, 1992
ASCII TO WORDSTAR CONVERSION PROGRAM
DOCUMENTATION
History:
WORDSTAR has been around for over 10 years. It started on CP/M based
systems and progressed to the DOS version 7.0 and now a Microsoft Windows
version. The WORDSTAR 7.0 Reference Manual on page 2-6 clearly states
that to edit a non-document (ASCII file) as a document one should open
the file as a document. Then, press CTRL-6 (^6) at the beginning of
every line to convert the hard carriage returns to soft carriage returns
except for the last line of the paragraph and lines between paragraphs.
To remove leading spaces the suggestion is to use CTRL-T at the beginning
of the line also. Not a bad idea but this is a slow time consuming
process which doesn't remove extra interword spaces. There simply has
to be a simpler way to get there from here. There is. The following
program converts the ASCII file to a WORDSTAR type file from beginning
to end. It doesn't end all manual work but it does 98% of it.
ASC2STAR PROGRAM
The ASC2STAR program was designed to convert an ASCII file to a file able
to be opened by WORDSTAR as a document without any extra spaces and without
the hard carriage return (CR) characters at the end of every line. It was
designed to preserve the hard carriage returns between paragraphs if the
paragraphs were separated by two (2) carriage return/linefeed character
pairs. This program removes all page formatting in ASCII files since it
removes all extra spaces.
***** W A R N I N G *****
This program will write to the output file specified and will overwrite an
existing file WITHOUT WARNING OR DELAY. MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR COMPUTER DISK
FILES BEFORE RUNNING THIS OR ANY OTHER SOFTWARE.
WARRANTY & LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
The ASC2STAR program is provided "as is" and without warranty of any kind.
K. R. Plossl makes no warranty whatsoever for the operation, suitability,
or fitness for any purpose of the ASC2STAR program. THE USER SHALL ASSUME
ALL RISKS OF USING THIS SOFTWARE. The USER not K. R. Plossl shall assume
the entire cost of all necessary servicing, repair, lost business, correction
and any other costs which are a result of any error, defect, omission, power
interruption, file corruption, file loss, or any other occurance which may
even remotely result during or as a result of using this software.
USE THIS SOFTWARE AT YOUR OWN RISK
Copyright (c) 1992 by Keith R. Plossl - All Rights Reserved
K. R. Plossl & Company
P. O. Box 669681
Marietta, GA 30066