Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ra!jgb1 From: jgb1@ra.MsState.Edu (John G. Burrell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Wordperfect 5.1 -> Displaywrite Message-ID: Date: 14 Nov 90 23:22:19 GMT References: <1990Nov10.000237.1888@ism.isc.com> Lines: 29 In <1990Nov10.000237.1888@ism.isc.com> dma@ism.isc.com ((saki)) writes: >I used DisplayWrite in the dim days of my first computer job, and >now I'm faced with helping someone (if possible) generate documents >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... >I tried calling Wordperfect's help-phone-line for this, and they >claimed they didn't know. I thought DisplayWrite was a product of >theirs in the same generic family? >--------------------------------------------- >"I mean lines, ducky, can you handle lines?" >--------------------------------------------- >* saki (dma@ism.isc.com) * Ever RTFM???? or do you have manuals??? WordPerfect comes with a conversion program called..... CONVERT. will convert to RFT/DCA file format (IBM's Revisable Form Text format) which DisplayWrite will read and write. NO... IBM published DisplayWrite... a hold over from thier dedicated word processor machines called... DisplayWriters I am really suprised at WP's techies not catching this... BTW, to go from DisplayWrite to WP, you must save the doc in RFT format..