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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 13:02:00 GMT
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- From: "Mark D. Szuchman, History, Florida Int. Univ." <SZUCHMAN@SERVAX>
- Subject: Conversion of MAC files
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- Dorothy Day's comments on file conversion are valid but within limits. Yes,
- we do use version 5.0 of WFW, but the University Comp Support people do not
- have the MAC version of MS-Word, which explains why we first had to convert
- the MAC version of Word to Word Perfect. However, using the MAC's Super
- Drive's capability of converting the ms. to a DOS text file would defeat the
- objective of maintaining the print formats, notes, and foreign language
- characters that the ms. contains.
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- Unless I have the institutional budget to acquire Software Bridge in
- addition to WFW 5.0 (or 5.1), I would not spend personal funds for the
- relatively rare occasions I've had to deal with MAC to MS-DOS conversions. I
- found them both to be excellent products.
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- | Mark D. Szuchman | Bitnet: szuchman@servax |
- | Dept. of History | Internet: szuchman@servax.fiu.edu |
- | Florida International Univ. | Phone (o): 305-348-3191 |
- | Miami, FL 33199 | Phone (h): 305-382-4649 |
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