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From: dana@are.berkeley.edu (Dana E. Keil)
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Subject: Re: WordPerfect PC->Mac problems
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Date: 19 Sep 90 18:54:41 GMT
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In article <3124@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) writes:
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>I am using Macintosh WordPerfect 1.0.5, and having trouble converting
>documents between it and PC WordPerfect.
>
>1) Document created in PC WP 4.2.  Uploaded to UNIX and back down to the
>Mac.  Document reads in, but loses line breaks (turn into spaces) and
>wraparound (no space in between words).
>
>2) Document created in PC WP 5.1.  Uploaded to UNIX and back down to the
>Mac.  Document does not read in: alert comes up saying "End of File".
>
>3) Same as (2), but document saved in 5.0 format.  Same result.
>
>4) Document created in Mac WP, saved in 5.0 format.  Uploaded to UNIX and
>back down to the PC.  Document reads in to WP 5.1 but loses everthing past
>page 3 (of 11 pages).  What gets converted is pretty acceptable, but losing
>pages isn't.
>
>Any hints?  Should I try converting the files using PC disks and AFX?
>Is there a problem between PC files being flat and Macintosh files having
>two forks?  Is Mac WP simply deficient and I should use Word for Word or
>some other converter?
>
>Paul DuBois
>dubois@primate.wisc.edu

You don't mention one detail which may be the source of your difficulty,
how are you moving the files between the desktop machines and the UNIX
machine? The word processor document files you are dealing with should
be transferred as binary files (not ascii text) so you have to make
sure that your communication software on the Mac, the UNIX and DOS
machines are set to send and receive binary.

The other thing that might help is to give up trying to do anything with
Mac WordPerfect 1.0.5 until version 2.0 comes out ;-).