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- From: kees@echelon.uucp (Kees Hendrikse)
- Subject: Re: WordPerfect to ASCII translator for Sun/Unix
- Organization: Echelon Consultancy, Enschede, The Netherlands
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:24:36 GMT
- Message-ID: <Bz9C91.H7I@echelon.uucp>
- References: <1992Dec11.002212.7496@ncar.ucar.edu> <1992Dec14.144836.23230@cheshire.oxy.edu>
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- In <1992Dec14.144836.23230@cheshire.oxy.edu> legend@cheshire.oxy.edu
- (Linda A. Malcor) writes:
-
- > >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?
- >
- > 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.
- (...)
- > 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).
-
- I guess this idea could be improved by having WP write to a named pipe,
- with a suitable mailer-daemon listening at the other end. You call the
- printer 'mailer' and sending mail will be as easy as printing a document.
-
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