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- From: mek@guinan.psu.edu (Mark E. Kotanchek)
- Subject: Re: PowerBook to NeXT?
- Message-ID: <&hh1H7t7u8@atlantis.psu.edu>
- Sender: news@atlantis.psu.edu (Usenet)
- Organization: Penn State Center for Academic Computing
- References: <Bs8x5y.C4J@gate.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 13:49:03 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <Bs8x5y.C4J@gate.demon.co.uk> asc@aclark (Alexander Clark)
- writes:
- > > I've run into a few quirks with it; however, it appears to be the only
- > > game in town to convert my FrameMaker documents on the NeXT into
- > > WordPerfect for the MS-DOS world.
- > >
-
- > Has anyone written a sed script or something to convert NeXT Charcter
- sets
- > to Macintosh ones? French accents and so on get mangled.
- >
- > Or am I missing something obvious - I just copy things onto a DOS disk.
- >
-
- While it is reasonably easy to transfer ASCII between the various
- platforms, FrameMaker does not have an ability to export a document in a
- machine-independent form other than its own ASCII "Maker Interchange
- Format". Alas, FrameMaker is the only program which correctly imports
- "mif" files--i.e., maintains all of the formatting. Thus, taking a Frame
- document over to Word on the Mac or WordPerfect on MSDOS involves a
- painful and extensive reformatting effort. What MacLinkPlus does is some
- of the file translation for you--with the physical transfer accomplished
- either via floppies or via the serial link cable. (I thought I'd better
- mention a cable so this is a legit post to next.hardware ;)
-
- Mark.
- --
- Mark Kotanchek
- Guidance & Control Dept - 363 ASB
- Applied Research Lab/Penn State
- P.O. Box 30
- State College, PA 16804
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