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From: dana@are.berkeley.edu (Dana E. Keil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: WordPerfect PC->Mac problems
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Date: 19 Sep 90 20:22:59 GMT
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In article <3129@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> bin@primate.wisc.edu writes:
>From article <1990Sep19.185441.3022@agate.berkeley.edu>, by dana@are.berkeley.edu (Dana E. Keil):
>> 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 ;-).
>
>Which is when?  I've heard "end of month", which I suppose means
>December :-) or :-(, who knows.
>
>Will it have better conversion filters?
>--
>Paul DuBois
>dubois@primate.wisc.edu
>
>                 "Was all of this because I wore a big man's hat?"

I haven't heard much about actual dates lately. When WordPerfect came
to BMUG to show 2.0 a while ago if sounded like it should be coming
pretty soon now (this Fall sometime) and yes, they claimed it was going
to handle conversions a lot better.

By the way, though, do you *want* to use WordPerfect on the Mac?
I mean, if your only concern is translation between Macs and
WordPerfect on the PC, you don't have to use WordPerfect on the
Mac. Translation between PC WordPerfect and various Mac word
processors (I use Word) is easily done with MacLink translators
from DataViz. You can also save a Microsoft Word file from the Mac
as Word DOS and then have the WordPerfect conversion program make
the translation from MS Word PC to WordPerfect PC. Sometimes this
seems to handle things even better than the DataViz translator
(which, by the way, is the same thing as the most recent version of
the TOPS translators).