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From: chris@accuvax.nwu.edu (Chris Krohn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Wordstar from the Macintosh?
Message-ID: <851@accuvax.nwu.edu>
Date: 10 Jul 89 16:47:51 GMT
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In article <32964@apple.Apple.COM> bnfb@Apple.COM (Bjorn Freeman-Benson) writes:
##Does anyone know how to get Wordstar format files on IBM disks using
##a Macintosh?  I want to recomend to a friend to buy a Mac, but her
##publisher requires 5.25" IBM disks in Wordstar (or WordPerfect)
##format.  Sigh.
##
##I know that I can transfer files using the Apple File Exchange, and
##the Apple official IBM drive, but is there an AFE template for
##any Mac word processor format to Wordstar/Wordperfect files?
##

	Probably the best set of translators I have worked with are
the MacLink Plus/Translators.  These include translators from either MS-Word
or MacWrite to both WordStar and PC WordPerfect.  These translators are
available from DataViz, Inc. in Trumbull, Connecticut.


Chris Krohn

(Please note that I have no relationship with DataViz other than as a
satisfied customer.