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WSCNVN has been used extensively to port files between Wordstar and
a large variety of other word processors on micros (PC DOS, MS DOS
and CP/M systems), minis (DEC VAX, UNIX systems) and dedicated word
processors (NBI, WANG, DEC Writer systems).
The main problem encountered with transferring a file to Wordstar is
that paragraph reform is lost because every line has a hard carriage
return. The fact that Wordstar uses the high order bit to form
characters which are non-ASCII i.e. 128-255 is only one of the
problems of exporting Wordstar files to other word processors.
The conversion of an output file from another word processor to
Wordstar is done with the "O" option in WSCNVN. Input which is of
single lines and meets the criteria of a soft paragraph is converted
to lines with soft carriage returns. However, for those files in
which a paragraph is a single string of text, when the file is
brought up into Wordstar, a file reform using ^Q^Q^B1 is necessary.
When the option "W" is selected, Wordstar files are converted
according to selections made by the user, and all the high order bit
settings are zapped to produce an ASCII file. The choices are:
1) Carriage Returns - if Hard is selected, every line of WS
text is ended with a CRLF to make it hard. If Soft is selected, all
of the Wordstar soft returns within a paragraph are deleted to form
a contiguous line of text. Typically, this will be automatically
reformed into paragraphs by the destination word processor.
2) Dot Commands - if Strip is selected, all dot (.) commands
associated with print time forming are deleted from the file.
MailMerge commands are retained as they are probably of value to be
known in the destination word processor. If Retain is chosen, dot
commands are kept in the output file.
3) Special Codes - if Strip is chosen, all of the special
meaning codes to Wordstar are stripped out except 'skip to new page'
(^L) and tabs (^I) - tabs are converted to spaces on an 8 byte
boundary basis consistent with the way Wordstar uses tabs. If
Identify is chosen then <<^*>> is displayed for every code, where *
is the Wordstar operation e.g. B means Bold printing. It is a simple
matter to Find & Replace these symbols with the equivalent function
of the destination word processor. Pay special attention to any
<<^]>> symbols - this is the Escape character and at least the first
succeeding character will belong to it.
If you find this program useful, it is requested that you forward a
contribution of $25 to:
SaraKoi
P.O. Box 2161
Saratoga CA 95070
Even if you do not contribute, please distribute this program freely
to others so that they may benefit from the use of WSCNVN.
NOTE: You can order special versions of WSCNVN to port files between
different word processors, and retain the special print options of
each automatically. Such versions are customized to the user's
preferences and may be contracted for at a standard fee of $250.
ically. Such versions are customized to the user's
peferences and may be contracted for at a standard fee of $250.
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