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From: homey@portia.Stanford.EDU (John Lilly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Scientific Conversions DA
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Date: 31 Aug 90 15:48:03 GMT
Sender: homey@portia.stanford.edu (John Lilly)
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Hi.  
Last night I installed a DA called SciCon (short for Scientific
Conversions) on my MacPlus, and found it to be really amazing, because
it has far more conversions, for just about everything, than I will ever
need.  I think that it would be in a more useful form, however, if it
were a QuickDex file, so that I could have it scan for the units I
wanted, instead of scrolling through.  That is easy enough, since
QickDex will use a Microsoft Word document, but I couldn't figure out
how to use Word to get the text from the DA.  I tried everything that I
could think of, including:Word-Open Any File, FEdit, RESEdit, MacTools,
Canopener, and changing the filetype.  Butwith the ways that I could see
the text (FEdit, ResEdit) I couldn't save the text file, and the other
ways, (like when I opened it with Word and Canopener), it said that the
file only had one character.  Does anybody have any ideas on how to
convert it to a text file?  I would really appreciate it.  It is a great
DA, by the way--I am just trying to make it even more useful.

Thanks a lot,

John Lilly
homey@portia.stanford.edu

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