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From: Jamie.Willson@f11.n203.z1.fidonet.org (Jamie Willson)
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Subject: Re: WORD PERFECT
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Date: 11 Aug 90 02:58:20 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

If the files you get with a program are ASCII files then you use the TEXT IN
feature of Word Perfect.  Most read.me files and .doc files I have encountered
are text or ASCII files.  So you can just TEXT IN the file into Word Perfect.
I know there is a "TEXT IN" choice off the LIST FILES (F5) function key
in Word Perfect 4.2.  There is also another function key that allows you
to bring in an ASCII file.  (But I can't remember which function key, if you 
use the HELP key (F3) and press T (for text) there will be columns displayed
which tell you which function key is TEXT IN.)  In WP 5.0 it is the CTRL F5 
function key. Just make sure and set your margins wide because most ASCII
text figures use about 80 columns, and WP figures you're in an office
environment and will want 1 inch margins. So things get "jumbled" if you don't.

You mention porting your catalog files from the Eureka to your clone.  What is
the Eureka and are you going to read your catalog files in Word Perfect or
use them elsewhere?  If they are straight ASCII files, no problem getting them
from one place to the other and using them.  If they are files created by some
database program, and the Eureka is not an MSDOS machine, then whatever program
that you are using on your clone needs to have the same file structure as the
program that ran on the Eureka.
 
Word Perfect runs on several kinds of machines, and saves its files in the same
manner on all machines,  that way it is possible to port WP documents to any 
kind of machine and use them without losing any of WPs features, like tabs,
indents, line spacing, etc.

Hope I answered at least one of your questions,
jamie

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