Date : Fri, 28 May 1999 11:43:53 +0100
From : "Christopher J Thornley" <C.J.Thornley@...>
Subject: Re: Loading Interword, Wordwise etc. Files to PC
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Word wise files are formatted with just CR so you need a converter which will
turn say CR LF to PC LF CR the sort of text converter your looking for is MAC
ASCII to MSdos text converter. There are some converters on micros.hensa.ac.uk
failing that one could be probably knocked up in C or Pascal.
As far as interword is concerned I not so sure if this is generic straight ASCII
or ANSI or special control code are used. You could use a filter type routine to
filter just ASCII and format appropriately but if there anything special
interword does you have to program it into a converter.
I know impression on an Archimedes as plugins which will handle this file
format.
"Christopher Hatton" <CHatton@...> on 26/05/99 22:35:13
To: bbc-micro@...
cc: (bcc: Christopher J Thornley/CMS/University of Salford/GB)
Subject: [BBC-Micro] Loading Interword, Wordwise etc. Files to PC
Hi All,
I have recently become interested in moving a large quantity of documents I had
written on the BBC to the PC. I have completed the first stage which is to move
the files to the PC using a serial cable. The data is there but I can't do
anything with it. I have used a ROM image of Interword on the PCBBC emulator but
with no luck (it crashes).
I would have thought that the best way to read these files was to use a
Microsoft Word converter to load them directly into a PC word processor. Does
anyone know if such a converter has ever been produced? Indeed, have any
docuement conversion tools for BBC-PC formats ever been produced? I do not have
the knowledge to do this myself.
Chris Hatton
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