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- From: auerbach@ncsu.edu (David D Auerbach)
- Subject: Re: XYWRite->Anything else
- Message-ID: <auerbach.724549392@news.ncsu.edu>
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- Organization: North Carolina State University
- References: <1992Dec16.212945.1992@primerd.prime.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 23:43:12 GMT
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- jasonp@bungee.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Jason Pascucci) writes:
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- >I posted this question to comp.sys.ibm,pc.misc, and recieved no
- >response, so I thought I'd try here...
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- >Are there any programs which would translate XYWrite doc
- >format to something else? I don't own XYWrite, but expect
- >to be getting some documents in it soon, and I'm
- >kind of looking for an XYWrite->Postscript,
- >through any number of steps you'd care to mention.
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- >I don't expect to buy XYWrite anytime soon...it's
- >$455 pricetag seems outrageous for what it does.
-
- >Thanks!
- >--
- >Jason R. Pascucci
- >jasonp@primerd.prime.com
- You can buy XyWrite for about $200 for some mailorder places.
- One of the advantages of Xy is that the documents are straight ascii, with
- the formatting codes stored as markup codes enclosed between guillmets
- (ascii 174 and 175). Also XyWrite comes with a Postscript driver so that
- you can use its type to file command to essentially trnaslate those codes
- to a corresponding postscript file. But in any case xywrite files are
- perfectly readable by anything that can read ascii and the markup codes are
- relatively obvious ( <<rm65>> means right margin 65, e.g.).
-