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- From: richard.smith@durham.ac.uk (Richard Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.reviews
- Subject: MINI-REVIEW: MessySID
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Date: 18 Oct 1994 17:09:47 GMT
- Organization: The Amiga Online Review Column - ed. Daniel Barrett
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- Sender: amiga-reviews@math.uh.edu (comp.sys.amiga.reviews moderator)
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- Keywords: file translation, IBM PC, freeware
- Originator: barrett@karazm.math.uh.edu
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- For this week's effort, I shall be giving a few brief thoughts on
- the MESSYSID11 PD package, which is available from all PD libraries (i.e.,
- 17Bit, UBS, etc.). This package is generally very good, but the best feature
- has to be the PC-to-Amiga (or vice versa) file translation. This enables a
- lowly A500 with a free package (e.g., Interword-free on the cover of CU
- Amiga) to be used as a workhorse for producing some really professional
- output on a high end PC. This may suit some students, like me, who have
- an Amiga and cannot afford to buy a PC.
-
- There are difficulties, however, because some packages have
- difficulty in reading the output. The only safe route I have found is using
- Interword on the Amiga and saving the file in ASCII; then, the transfer to PC
- can then be read by WordPerfect. It cannot, however, be read by Word for
- Windows. This presents some difficulties as most networks only use Word.
- The only way around this is to use Translation software on some of the
- latest editions of WordPerfect - yet not all networks have these; e.g.,
- Durham.
-
- Cheers!
-
- - Richard Smith
- richard.smith@durham.ac.uk
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