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- From: fgd3@nifty.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe, III)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Need Word Perfect batch file converter
- Message-ID: <fgd3.03ah@nifty.UUCP>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 21:33:53 EST
- References: <18878@mindlink.bc.ca>
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- Organization: Fabbian G. Dufoe, III
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- In article <18878@mindlink.bc.ca> Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca (Charlie Gibbs) writes:
- >In article <Bzqs4M.3o0@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu
- >(Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- >
- >> I need to convert a whole bunch of small Amiga Word Perfect files to
- >>IBM WP 4.2 format. Would anyone know of a batch file converter that would
- >>do this? I remember there being some kind of file converter once written
- >>by the people at Word Perfect, but I don't remember much about it and cannot
- >>find it.
-
- WordPerfect can convert the files one at a time, but it doesn't make it
- very convenient for a large set of small files.
-
- > Try CrossDOS. :-) Seriously, Amiga WP format is the same as
- >IBM WP 4.2. If you tell IBM WP to save in 4.2 format it can be read
- >by an Amiga, and I think WP 5.1 will recognize 4.2 files when reading
- >them. Just make sure when you transfer the files that you don't do
- >any "text mode" conversions because that'll screw them up.
-
- It's close, but not exactly the same. The one difference I know of is
- that the Amiga version supports italics and MS-DOS WP 4.2 does not. If you
- know your files don't have any italicized text you can simply copy them to
- MS-DOS disks and load them into WP 4.2. In fact, even if there is
- italicized text you can do that. You won't lose anything except the italics
- codes.
-
- > In CrossDOS it's as easy as sticking a formatted 720K MS-DOS
- >diskette into the Amiga drive and typing COPY #? DI0:.
- >
- > Serial port transfers via null modem should work too.
-
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