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From: clf3678@ultb.UUCP (C.L. Freemesser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari WordPerfect
Summary: What version doest thou useth?
Keywords: wordperfect atari ibm
Message-ID: <1215@ultb.UUCP>
Date: 9 Sep 89 02:00:09 GMT
References: <343@mead.UUCP>
Reply-To: clf3678@ultb.UUCP (C.L. Freemesser)
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Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Information Systems
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In article <343@mead.UUCP> bode@mead.UUCP (Bill Bodenstein) writes:
>Howdy folks. I recently purchased WordPerfect for my 1040ST thinking I'd
>then be able to finish any technical writing work at home, after writing
>up documents with WordPerfect on the PC's here at work.  But apparently,
>Atari WordPerfect is not compatible with IBM WordPerfect--It tells me
>"Not Atari WP file" when I ask it to read in a doc file created on a
>PC. Does anyone out there have a program to convert IBM WP <--> ATARI WP
>formats??? Thanks in advance...

From what I know, you can transfer files between every version of WP
made, except for the Mac version.

What version are you using at work?  If I remember correctly, you must
have the corresponding version of WP for the IBM (which would be 4.1).
I think 5.0 was a big enough jump that it caused incompatibilities (the
graphics support most likely causes this).

Personally, I have yet to try it, but WP claims it DOES work.

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