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TextOut/5 1.3 Payment Form
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NEW! Payment for TextOut/5 now entitles you to a free CompuServe
IntroPak, including a $15 credit toward on-line time!
Name ____________________________________________________________
Company _________________________________________________________
Address _________________________________________________________
City ________________________________ State ______ Zip __________
Country _________________________
NUMBER OF COPIES ____ DISKETTE SIZE __________
TOTAL PAYMENT $_____ ($20/copy suggested)
Payment of $20 or more per copy entitles the purchaser to a
printed manual (sized to fit the WP binder), the current
release of TextOut/5 without the on-screen payment reminder,
and a free CompuServe IntroPak.
SALES TAX _______ (Michigan residents only, 4%)
OVERSEAS
SHIPPING _______ ($5 per order)
PAYMENT METHOD:
___ Check enclosed (US Funds):
___ Bill company (enclose purchase order, add $5 processing fee)
___ Charge VISA / MasterCard
Card # __________________________________ Expires ___________
Signature ____________________________________________________
Call (517) 332-4353 to pay by MasterCard or VISA, or send your payment
or purchase order to: CrossCourt Systems
1521 Greenview Ave.
East Lansing, MI 48823
Prices are in U.S. dollars and include shipping within North America.
Foreign orders: payment must be by credit card, international money
order in U.S. dollars, or by check in U.S. dollars drawn on a U.S.
bank. Payment must also include $5 shipping for airmail delivery.
TextOut/5
WordPerfect 5 to ASCII Conversion Program
Version 1.3
Another Shareware Product from:
CrossCourt Systems
(Member - Association of Shareware Professionals)
FEATURES
TextOut/5 converts WordPerfect 5.0 and 5.1 document files on IBM-
compatible computers to ASCII. It improves upon WordPerfect's Text
Out command, in both the "DOS Text" and "generic" formats.
1. TextOut/5 translates text, captions, and equations from graphics
boxes, as well as footnotes and endnotes; WordPerfect does not.
2. TextOut/5 formats tables much better than WordPerfect does.
3. TextOut/5 translates over 400 of WordPerfect's special characters
to ASCII; WordPerfect translates only 150.
4. TextOut/5 allows you to specify the line length you want in the
ASCII file, without any reformatting on your part.
5. TextOut/5 can use special characters to mark many font attributes,
such as underline, allowing you to transfer the file to another
word processor and restore the attributes.
6. TextOut/5 runs from the DOS command line, and accepts wildcard
filespecs.
7. TextOut/5 can recover text from damaged files that WordPerfect
will not load.
TextOut/5's default ASCII format is very much like that of the
WordPerfect "DOS Text Save" command. It emulates indents, tabs and
centering by the use of spaces, and ends each line with a hard
carriage return. The format is suitable for electronic mail and many
other purposes. See the "OPTIONS" section for information on the
other formats TextOut/5 can produce.
TextOut/5 omits most page-formatting characteristics. This means
that, for example, the left margin is not expanded to spaces; the top
and bottom margins are not expanded to blank lines; page breaks,
headers, footers, and page numbering are omitted; and line-spacing and
top-to-bottom-centering commands are ignored.
Over 400 of WordPerfect's special characters are translated to
equivalent or similar ASCII characters. Other WordPerfect special
characters are translated to ASCII 254. WordPerfect's overstrike
feature is translated with a backspace character (ASCII 8) inserted
between the characters.
Captions and text from graphics boxes are translated. Equations are
written in the command form used in the equation editor. Tables have
correct horizontal spacing, but, unfortunately, any cell containing
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more than one line of text will cause the next cell to the right to
start one or more lines below where it should.
Footnotes and endnotes are placed at the end of the ASCII file.
Within the notes, a period and a single space are added after the note
number for readability. If a document contains both footnotes and
endnotes, the footnotes appear first, followed by the endnotes. The
footnote reference numbers in the text are enclosed in square
brackets, e.g. [1], while endnote reference numbers are enclosed in
braces, e.g. {3}.
For "Fast-Saved" documents, TextOut/5 will warn you that the
formatting may not be correct. Unless you have recently made a change
in margins, tabs or fonts without having gone to the end of the
document, the ASCII format will probably be fine. You can avoid
potential problems by changing your Setup options to disable Fast
Saves.
USE
To run TextOut/5, type TO5 followed by two filenames. The first one
is the name of the input (WordPerfect) file, the second is the output
(ASCII) file. For example:
TO5 TEST.DOC TEST.ASC
The file names can include wildcards, employed in the same way as with
the DOS COPY command. For example,
TO5 A:P*.*
converts all files starting with P in the current directory on drive
A: to ASCII files of the same name on the current drive and directory,
while
TO5 \DOCS \TEXT\*.TXT
would convert all files from the \DOCS directory to the \TEXT
directory while changing their extensions to TXT.
If a file already exists under the output name, it will be replaced
without warning. If the input and output names are the same,
TextOut/5 will not proceed with the conversion. If the source file is
not a WordPerfect 5 document, TextOut/5 will report this, and will not
perform the conversion.
OPTIONS
TextOut/5 has many options which can be invoked by "switches" on the
command line. The switches start with a slash or a hyphen, followed
by a letter identifying the option, and, for some of the switches, a
numeric value. The identifying letter can be upper or lower case and
the switches can appear anywhere on the command line -- before, after,
or in between the filenames. There must not be any spaces between the
slash, the letter and the number. A typical command might look like:
TO5 /T /R /B60 /C62 SAMPL SAMPL.ASC
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"Generic Format" Options
These two options are usually used together to produce a format like
WordPerfect's "generic word processing" option. This format has tabs
and carriage returns only where the operator originally typed them,
with no spaces or "soft returns" added. This is usually the best
format to use if you want to transfer the resulting ASCII file to
another word processor.
1. /R keep