Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!psuvax1!eds1!wa3wbu!compnect!johncore From: johncore@compnect.UUCP (John Core ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: WP 5 to ASCII ? Summary: WP conversions Keywords: WordPerfect filter Message-ID: <833@compnect.UUCP> Date: 23 Oct 90 01:41:11 GMT References: <2719dd16-3bc.1comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc-1@vpnet.chi.il.us> Organization: John Core at home, Harrisburg,PA Lines: 33 In article <2719dd16-3bc.1comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc-1@vpnet.chi.il.us>, cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (Crash Gordon) writes: > > >Author: [Esa Holmberg] > >I have about 500 small text files that have been written with > >Wordperfect 5.0, and now they should be converted to plain > >ASCII files. > > Just use the CONVERT.EXE program which comes with WP. Select "WordPerfect > to Another Format", then "ASCII". This program will take wildcards for > input filenames, so you could do a whole subdirectory. > I HATE WORDPERFECT!!!! -- thanks just had to get that off my chest ok, we have many pc's running just about every version of WP known to the state of UTAH. and I have found out that WP's conversion sucks. being a WORDSTAR lover, in their 5.5 release they have a conversion program that converts WP files better than WP's own program. It also supports wildcards. We actually had better luck moving WP 4.2 to 5.0 by converting it to a wordstar file and then back to WP 5.0!! I called WP support in Utah about this and I got the same drone message they give you for EVERY problem you will ever have with WP "reinstall from orig disks - thank-you." Wizard Systems | UUCP: uunet!wa3wbu!compnect!johncore P.O. Box 6269 |INTERNET: johncore@compnect.wa3wbu Harrisburg, Pa. 17112-6269 |a public bbs since 1978. Data(717)657-4992 & 4997 John Core, SYSOP |------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------| No matter where you go, there you are! a woman is just a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. -R. Kipling