Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!hoss!chakra!price From: price@chakra.unl.edu (Chad Price) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Wordperfect 5.1 -> Displaywrite Message-ID: Date: 12 Nov 90 14:19:45 GMT References: <1990Nov10.000237.1888@ism.isc.com> Sender: news@hoss.unl.edu (Network News Administer) Organization: University of Nebraska, Computing Resource Center Lines: 20 In <1990Nov10.000237.1888@ism.isc.com> dma@ism.isc.com ((saki)) writes: >on Wordperfect 5.1 and convert them for use on DisplayWrite. My >sense was to suggest using WP 5.1's Ctrl-F5 to save the document as a >DOS text, then use a DisplayWrite conversion program to pull it into >that system. But does one exist? I can't remember. And maybe there's >a better suggestion somewhere... To convert: WP has a program caled convert.exe, which will product a format called DCA-revisable form text, and also DCA-final form text. I cannot remember which one to use, so try both. Displaywrite should be able to read one or both of these formats, as they were originated by IBM for document transfer among some of its incompatible systems. >claimed they didn't know. I thought DisplayWrite was a product of >theirs in the same generic family? Word Perfect Corp was originally called satellite software, but NEVER was a party to Displaywrite. Displaywrite in all of its versions has always been a product of IBM.