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TextOut/5 2.05 Payment Form
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Payment of $20 or more per copy entitles you to a printed manual
(sized to fit the WP binder), the current release of TextOut/5 without
the on-screen payment reminder, and a free CompuServe IntroPak,
including a $15 credit toward on-line time.
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TextOut/5 2.05
WordPerfect 5 to ASCII Conversion Program
Another Shareware Product from:
CrossCourt Systems
Member, Association of Shareware Professionals
FEATURES
TextOut/5 converts WordPerfect 5.0 and 5.1 document files on IBM-
compatible computers to ASCII. It is a shareware program complying
with the standards of the Association of Shareware Professionals,
allowing you to try all features of the program before you buy it.
TextOut/5 offers features of WordPerfect's "DOS Text", "generic", and
"DOS Text Printer" formats. Its advantages over WordPerfect's
translations include the folllowing:
1. TextOut/5 translates text, captions, and equations from graphics
boxes, as well as footnotes, endnotes, and comments.
2. TextOut/5 can preserve aspects of page formatting, such as left
margins, top margins, page breaks, and line spacing.
3. TextOut/5 formats tables much better than WordPerfect does.
4. TextOut/5 translates over 400 of WordPerfect's special characters
to ASCII; WordPerfect translates only 150.
5. TextOut/5 allows you to specify the line length you want in the
ASCII file, without any reformatting on your part.
6. TextOut/5 can insert ASCII strings to mark many formatting
attributes, from boldface to index entries, allowing translations
to desktop publishers, typesetters, and word processors.
7. TextOut/5 runs from the DOS command line, accepts wildcard
filespecs, and is faster than WordPerfect.
8. TextOut/5 can recover text from damaged files that WordPerfect
will not load.
TextOut/5's default output is much like that of the WordPerfect "DOS
Text Save" command. It emulates indents, tabs and centering by the
use of spaces, and ends each line with a hard carriage return. It
omits most page-formatting characteristics, such as margins, page
breaks, headers, footers, page numbering, line-spacing, and top-to-
bottom-centering. The format is suitable for electronic mail and many
other purposes.
TextOut/5 can optionally create formats similar to WordPerfect's
"generic" and "DOS Text Printer" output. See the "OPTIONS" section
for more information.
Over 400 of WordPerfect's special characters are translated to
equivalent or similar ASCII characters. Other WordPerfect special
characters are translated to ASCII 254. WordPerfect's overstrike
feature is translated with a backspace character (ASCII 8) inserted
between the characters.
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Captions and text from graphics boxes are translated. Equations are
written in the command form used in the equation editor. Tables have
correct horizontal spacing, but, unfortunately, any cell containing
more than one line of text will cause the next cell to the right to
start one or more lines below where it should.
Footnotes and endnotes are normally placed at the end of the ASCII
file, although there is an option to keep them inline where they
occur. Within the notes, a period and a single space are added after
the note number for readability. If a document contains both
footnotes and endnotes, the footnotes appear first, followed by the
endnotes. The footnote reference numbers in the text are enclosed in
square brackets, e.g. [1], while endnote reference numbers are
enclosed in backslashes, e.g. \3\, although both of these can be
changed.
For "Fast-Saved" documents, TextOut/5 will warn you that the
formatting may not be up-to-date. Unless you have recently made a
change in margins, tabs or fonts without having gone to the end of the
document, the ASCII format will probably be fine. You can avoid
potential problems by changing your WP Setup to disable Fast Saves.
USE
To run TextOut/5, type TO5 followed by two filenames. The first one
is the name of the input (WordPerfect) file, the second is the output
(ASCII) file. For example:
TO5 TEST.DOC TEST.ASC
The file names can include wildcards, employed in the same way as with
the DOS COPY command. For example,
TO5 A:P*.*
converts all files starting with P in the current directory on drive
A: to ASCII files of the same name on the current drive and directory,
while
TO5 \DOCS \TEXT\*.TXT
would convert all files from the \DOCS directory to the \TEXT
directory while changing their extensions to TXT.
If a file already exists under the output name, it will be replaced
without warning. If the input and output names are the same,
TextOut/5 will not proceed with the conversion. If the source file is
not a WordPerfect 5 document, TextOut/5 will report this, and will not
perform the conversion.
OPTIONS
TextOut/5 has many options which can be invoked on the command line.
The options start with a slash or a hyphen, followed by a one- or two-
letter option code, and, for some of the options, an ASCII string.
The identifying code letters can be upper or lower case and the
options can appear anywhere on the command line -- before, after, or
in between the filenames. There must be a space before each slash,
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but none between the slash, the option letters and the string. A
typical command might look like:
TO5 /KT /RS /BB[