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- Path: sparky!uunet!uchinews!machine!ddsw1!infopls!spirit
- From: spirit@infopls.chi.il.us (Dahlia van Gelder)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
- Subject: Re: help! mod1 VC>>123
- Message-ID: <77JNVB9w165w@infopls.chi.il.us>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 22:41:05 CST
- References: <30ZJVB3w165w@infopls.chi.il.us>
- Organization: INFOPLUS support, Wheeling, IL
- Lines: 37
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- spirit@infopls.chi.il.us (Dahlia van Gelder) writes:
-
- > I have (actually it belongs to my father) been using a TRS-80 Model 1
- >
- > I especially love the spontaneous reboot and the 2 week life of my
- > telecommunications disks before they fry. I have learned to keep a
- > series of them ready for action and just reformat and etc. Aint
- > experience grand. But I digress.
- >
- > I have gotten a clone together and to help my father make the switch I
- > would like to convert his VISICALC Spreadsheets, and the formulas that he
- > has in them, to a format that can be read by Lotus 123. I will send the
- > files, by modem, to a friend('s computer). Then I can write them to disc
- >
- > But, how do I make the files in a form in which Lotus can use them. I
- > am not an experienced spreadsheet user at all. I have no idea what Lotus
- > expects, nor what Visicalc produces. But I really really want to do this
- > for him. He is 73 so we better hurry. I think this will bring him up to
- > 1983 ?? a 286 with one 1.2 drive.
- >
- > :) Thank you in advance for helping me out. I would prefer private
- > email. This system is in transition and I am not sure the newsgroup is
- > echoing back.
- >
- > Flower... Bird... Song... Garden...
- > ...spirit@infopls.chi.il.us
-
- I wanted to find out how to convert the programs to 123 but it seems
- that the Lotus program will do it, once I get the files on a MS-DOS
- format. Can I do that my mailing a letter on the net to someone and then
- using the text of that letter as a file of input?
-
- would there be any end of file marker issues to be careful of.
- Thanks for the email replies. (big smile)
-
- Flower... Bird... Song... Garden...
- ...spirit@infopls.chi.il.us
-