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- From: legend@cheshire.oxy.edu (Linda A. Malcor)
- Subject: Re: WordPerfect to ASCII translator for Sun/Unix
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.144836.23230@cheshire.oxy.edu>
- Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.
- References: <1992Dec11.002212.7496@ncar.ucar.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 14:48:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec11.002212.7496@ncar.ucar.edu> you write:
- >
- >We need a translator to convert WordPerfect 5.1 to ascii,
- >to make mail work better here at NCAR. Anybody have any
- >ideas on how to make this happen? The mail originators
- >cannot put their bannana down before sending those files
- >over here ;-).
- >
- >Thanks in Advance....
- >
- >--Wayne
-
- I have been writing translators for WP -> various ASCII without writing
- a single line of code. Use the PTR program (it comes with every version
- of WP since 4.2?) to modify the STANDARD.PRS printer driver. The most
- important things you want to do are: 1) change the way character
- attributes are handled (bolds, and underlines in particular). 2) change
- the HMI and VMI and the way Carriage Return and Line Feed work. Then
- install you new print driver and tell WP that it is printing to a file
- (saddly it must be a single file name so you have to deal with that).
- This is something you have to play with to get right. But it is the
- right way to do it, and it's free!
-
-
- Daniel Malcor
- Los Angeles Times - Editorial Library
- Systems Analyst/Programmer
- Work Phone: (213) 237-4590
- INTERNET: legend@cheshire.oxy.edu
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