Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!purdue!decwrl!shelby!portia!Jessica!rick From: rick@Jessica.stanford.edu (Rick Wong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Transfering files between WriteNows Message-ID: <3707@portia.Stanford.EDU> Date: 17 Jul 89 17:24:33 GMT References: <5388@vicorp.UUCP> Sender: USENET News System Reply-To: rick@Jessica.UUCP (Rick Wong) Distribution: usa Organization: Stanford University Lines: 18 In article <5388@vicorp.UUCP> daniel@vicorp.UUCP (Daniel Dee) writes: >This question may have been asked before. But... >Does anybody know how (or if) I can transfer WriteNow files >between the Mac and NeXT? I tried it once and the NeXT seems >to have a problem reading Mac WriteNow files. Is there any >kind of translation needed between them? Thanks in advance. >- daniel (ddee@vicorp.uu.net) I've tried it on small files, and it's worked for me -- and I'm even using an old version (1.07) of WriteNow on my Mac. After getting the file from my Mac to my NeXT (using binary FTP or whatnot), and renaming the file with a ".wn" suffix, I can open it from WriteNow. Any option-characters get garbled, and non-standard fonts get changed to Helvetica, but things work for the most part. It even accepts pictures, although instead of display- ing them, it just draws a box saying "Macintosh graphic". Rick Wong rick@jessica.stanford.edu