Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dayvb!user_442
From: user_442@dayton.saic.com (J.C. Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Word 4.0 to WordPerfect for DOS???????
Message-ID: <1027.2609ddc1@dayton.saic.com>
Date: 23 Mar 90 13:26:41 GMT
References: <1815@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Science Applications Intl. Corp., Dayton, Ohio
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In article <1815@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>, mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb) writes:
> Greetings,
> 
>   A fried of mine started writing his thesis on a Macintosh in Microsoft Word,
> but he wants to finish it on his own machine (IBM-clone), now that it's
> working again.  He's using WordPerfect (I don't know the version, but it's
> apparently the newest one).  We tried saving the file using Word's Save As
> Word/DOS option, transfering the file to the IBM with a binary transfer (since
> the Word manual claims it's in the exact binary format for the IBM), and then
> running WordPerfect's convert utility on it.  The problem is, that the convert
> utility doesn't think it's a Word file.
> 
>   We don't have access to a Dayna 5-1/4" floppy drive, nor does his IBM have a
> 3-1/2" drive so that we could use my FDHD, so modem is the only way.
> 
>   Does anybody have any experiences doing this?  What works?
> 
> Thanks,
> --Mike
I've successfully transferred Word 4.0 files on a Mac SE to Wordperfect 5.0 on 
an AT clone using the following procedure:
1. format a 3.5" floppy for 720K on the AT.
2. On the MAC, use the Apple File Transfer utility that comes on the MAC 
utility disk. Select your Word 4.0 output file as the input to the utility.
3. Select translate, then put your AT-formatted 3.5" into the output MAC drive.
4. Move to the AT, fire up Wordperfect, load the translated file.
5. Enjoy

Note: This procedure does not preserve all Word 4.0 formatting commands, and 
it insists on placing hard returns into the document. You'll have to use 
"reveal codes" to find and delete the hard returns, but at least you get all 
the text.