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- From: grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Graham Thomas)
- Subject: Re: 1st Word to other formats
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.183442.13613@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
- Organization: University of Sussex
- References: <annius.721326674@freyr>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:34:42 GMT
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- From article <annius.721326674@freyr>, by annius@eri.research.ptt.nl (Annius Groenink):
- > ZZDLG@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK writes:
- >
- >>Hi Folks,
- >> A friend is moving his WP from 1st Word Plus on the ST to
- >>Word Perfect a PC. Are there any utilities available to
- >>convert 1st word files to a format suitable for reading
- >>by WP without loosing all the formatting info. Dave.
- >
- >
- > I think this question should not be tolerated and to say the least not be
- > answered in an ST group. Anyway, what's the point of moving from one
- > rediculous package to the other?
-
- Let me try to be a bit more helpful - but alas only a bit. If you have
- a recent update of WordPerfect for the ST (this leaves out 99% of ST
- users, I know) you can, if I remember correctly, convert a Wordplus file
- to Wperf format. It wasn't brilliant when I last tried it (2 years
- ago), but it was marginally better than ASCII transfer.
-
- Once you have the Wperf/ST file, you need to save it in Wperf 4.2 format
- on a PC-readable floppy, then your PC version of Wperf should be able to
- read the file.
-
- Overall, the ASCII route might be easiest.
-
- Graham
-