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From: mr@cica.cica.indiana.edu (Michael Regoli)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: .WRI to .TXT Converter?
Message-ID: <mr.657828256@cica>
Date: 5 Nov 90 18:04:16 GMT
References: <7424@cica.cica.indiana.edu> <125399@linus.mitre.org>
Organization: Center for Innov. Comp. Appl., Bloomington, IN
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In <125399@linus.mitre.org> jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) writes:

>In a recent article mr@cica.indiana.edu (Michael Regoli) writes:
> 
>>Does anyone know if a .WRI to .TXT (straight ASCII) format converter
>>exists?  I can certainly see the advantages to having one.  (BTW, have
>>*you* ever tried running "strings" on a .WRI file?!  What a mess!) :)

>Unless I'm missing something in your request, you can do exactly that
>by printing to a disk file.  Just use Control Panel to configure a 
>"generic, text only" printer to the port "FILE", select that printer,
>and print.

I could have been clearer.

What I'd like to do is read these files here on cica without having to
download the utilities to the PC just to read their docs.  (It's been
a true blessing to use "UNZIP" to read .TXT files in .ZIP files, etc.
Although .WRI files are a bit more tricky...)


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