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From: phil@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Translation of BBC-B format docs to PC or Mac
Message-ID: <2252@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk>
Date: 3 Oct 89 10:07:39 GMT
References: <142cs-sunb@massey.ac.nz>
Organization: Computer Science CSMVAX, Liverpool University
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In article <142cs-sunb@massey.ac.nz>, A.Stenhouse@massey.ac.nz (Alan Stenhouse) 
writes:
> Can somebody please help.
> 
> My father has been using a BBC model B as a word processor for a number
> of years now. He has many years of work (he's an author as well as a
> lecturer) stored on disk in BBC format. He has recently bought a Macintosh
> and wants to transfer his documents from the BBC format to the Mac.
> 

There is a program available commercially that will allow you to transfer BBC
View documents to the Mac and convert them into MacWrite (I think).  As I
recall it's called "BBCtoMac" (and Back) or somesuch thing.  If you do not
mind reformatting your text then you could save it as an ASCII text stream from
your BBC word-processor (check out *SPOOL in the BBC manual, or the
wordprocessor might support text-streaming directly) and then use Kermit on a
Mac and a Beeb.  The Kermit solution is totally free, gratis and without
charge, and I've transferred BBC files that way myself.

If you want any further details e-mail me if you like.

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