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From: scott@max.u.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: conversions to ibm-pc
Message-ID: <13869.266c43b2@max.u.washington.edu>
Date: 6 Jun 90 06:43:46 GMT
References: <1990May30.134551.3061@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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In article <1990May30.134551.3061@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, gdr2f@boole4.acc.Virginia.EDU (George D. Randels) writes:
> Help! (please)  Does anyone know of any programs that will convert commodore
> programs to ibm-pc format.  I'll want to do this on the ibm-pc.  My first
> project (at least the first immediate one I want to accomplish) is a conversion
> from Bank Street Writer to WordPerfect.
>
> George Randels
> gdr2f@virginia.edu
 
If you mean transfering the work-files of wordprocessors for the C64 to
the IBMs, it would depend on the wordprocessor. Most wordprocessors come
with a feature that will allow you to save the work-files as pure
ASCII files or/and PETASCII files (if it can only dump it as PETASCII, then
you need a simple convertion prg to go from PETASCII to ASCII convertion).
And most wordprocessors are capable to read ASCII-text-files.
So, having gotten the work-files as ASCII-files, it is a simple matter
of transfering the ASCII-text-files from one computer to the other via the     
modems.                                                                   
By the way, I do this all the time. I write things like reports   
and essays at home using the C64 and I save them as ASCII-files. Then
I dial-in to the university's mainframes and upload the files. I like to
to this because from the mainframes I can get a nice laser printout,
and also when I arrive to the school and pickup the output, if there is     
some new revision that needs to be made, I can access the mainframe through    
one of the terminals at school (or I can transfer the files to one of the
school's IBMs and use Word5) and make the necessary changes right away.
Usually when I send the ASCII-text-files from the C64 to the mainframe,
right after that I issue the command for laser printing it. And by the
time I arrive to the university the output is ready for me to pick it up
and turn it in to the professor......it makes for a nice-timing for those
tight dead-lines (that happens more often than I have the nerves for)  :-)
 
 
Sincerely,
Scott K. Stephen
 
 
P.S.  School is finally out for me.....and I am GLAD!!
      Have a fun summer.