Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pallas!dgl292 From: dgl292@pallas.athenanet.com (Doug Lee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: WP 5 to ASCII ? Summary: TXTOUT13--the improved translator - available on Simtel20 Keywords: WP5, WordPerfect, Text, Simtel, CrossCourt Systems Message-ID: <431@pallas.athenanet.com> Date: 24 Oct 90 18:49:31 GMT References: <3.271af840@wrglex> Reply-To: dgl292@athenanet.com (Doug Lee) Lines: 41 Expires: Sender: Followup-To: For those interested, there is a utility available from CrossCourt Systems which claims (and appears) to be an improved WP5.x->text translator. A short summary from the docs: =================== TextOut/5 converts WordPerfect 5.0 and 5.1 document files on IBM- compatible computers to ASCII. It improves upon WordPerfect's Text Out command, in both the "DOS Text" and "generic" formats. 1. TextOut/5 translates text, captions, and equations from graphics boxes, as well as footnotes and endnotes; WordPerfect does not. 2. TextOut/5 formats tables much better than WordPerfect does. 3. TextOut/5 translates over 400 of WordPerfect's special characters to ASCII; WordPerfect translates only 150. 4. TextOut/5 allows you to specify the line length you want in the ASCII file, without any reformatting on your part. 5. TextOut/5 can use special characters to mark many font attributes, such as underline, allowing you to transfer the file to another word processor and restore the attributes. 6. TextOut/5 runs from the DOS command line, and accepts wildcard filespecs. [Hmmm...good for 500 files???! -DL] 7. TextOut/5 can recover text from damaged files that WordPerfect will not load. =================== Their address and phone are CrossCourt Systems 1521 Greenview Ave. East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 332-4353 according to the same doc file. This utility is available also on Simtel20 as PD1:TXTOUT13.ARC and probably several other places (wuarchive.wustl.edu???). Btw, I have no relationship with CrossCourt Systems whatsoever (except as one who has retrieved and tested one of their products and found it admirable). Doug Lee (dgl292@athenanet.com or uunet!pallas!dgl292) (NOTE: that's "dgl" with a lower-case L, not #1)