Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!claris!peirce From: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: MacWrite II/Word 4.0 (Claris Translater 1.0?) Message-ID: <10644@claris.com> Date: 27 Oct 89 18:49:26 GMT References: Reply-To: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce) Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA Lines: 33 In article perez@andromeda (Willie Perez) writes: >Hi, I'm currently using MacWrite II which imports many other formats. >I see Pagemaker 3.02 imports Microsoft Word 4.0 and was wondering when >Claris would jump on the bandwagon and have their MacWrite II import >Word 4.0. Has anyone heard of this yet? I recently saw a file on a >network. The icon had that Claris look (little blue bar in the upper left >corner) and it was named MicrosoftWord 4.0. When I took an info, >the version # said: Claris Translator 1.0. Now, I'm not sure but it >looks like a file that when properly installed, like the installer, >will allow MacWrite II to import Word 4.0. Anyone know anything about this? > >respond: perez@andromeda.rutgers.edu Yes, the newly shipping version of MacWrite II 1.1 supports handling Word 4.0 documents. The little file called "MicrosoftWord 4.0" you saw is one of our new XTND file translator modules. You drop these in your system folder (or your Claris folder in the system folder!) and they show up in a popup in the open/save dialogs. XTND is rather nifty. You can aquire various XTND translators and use them from various programs (soon, right now only MacWrite II 1.1 supports this, but soon other Claris and NONClaris products will make use of the same XTND file). Claris Corp. | Michael R. Peirce -------------+-------------------------------------- | 5201 Patrick Henry Drive MS-C4 | Box 58168 | Santa Clara, CA 95051-8168 | (408) 987-7319 | AppleLink: peirce1 | Internet: peirce@claris.com | uucp: {ames,decwrl,apple,sun}!claris!peirce