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- From: rob@fosters.med.utah.edu (Rob Sargent)
- Subject: Re: WordPerfect -> Sybase
- In-Reply-To: mctrf@ccu.umanitoba.ca's message of Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:48:46 GMT
- Message-ID: <ROB.93Jan27235724@fosters.med.utah.edu>
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- Organization: University of Utah
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 23:57:24
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- > Our plan is:
- > C program DB lib.
- > WordPerfect 5.1 file -----------> ASCII -----------> SYBTEXT in database
- <
- < Our WordPerfect files only contain text (plain, bold faced, underlined, italic
-
- 1. "bold face, underlined, italic" is NOT plain text. I seriously
- doubt that the escape sequences involved will be of any value
- displayed inside an APT window.
-
- 2. I think that you would be better off using a system call to either:
- a:invoke WordPerfect on the file ( if you have (unixWP)
- b:run more on mantained ascii versions of the files (in lieu
- of placing them in the database)
- --
- Rob Sargent s-mail: Dept. of Human Genetics
- e-mail: rob@fosters.med.utah.edu U. of Utah Medical School
- Eccles Genetics Bldg
- Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
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