Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!adobe!heaven!glenn
From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: converting word files
Message-ID: <375@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 17 Dec 90 22:04:00 GMT
References: <9012150619.AA05913@teri.bio.uci.edu>
Reply-To: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Organization: RightBrain Software, Woodside, CA
Lines: 33

In article <9012150619.AA05913@teri.bio.uci.edu> mwu@TERI.BIO.UCI.EDU (Matt Wu) writes:
>
>Does anyone know how to open up several .rtf documents with 
>WriteNow without having to go through its Open command? It 
>would be very nice if I could select all the files at once in 
>the File Viewer and tell them to go to WriteNow instead of 
>Edit. I tried typing "WriteNow <first part of file>*", but 
>that did not seem to work. Apparently, WriteNow cannot be run 
>(at least that way) through the shell.

This will work:

	open -a WriteNow *.rtf

>Also (I don't know if this is a NeXT problem, an Apple File 
>Exchange problem, a DOS problem or what) but for some reason 
>my accents are not coming out correctly (what's worse is that 
>accent grave and egu over characters are treated as if they 
>didn't exist, so I can't even do a search and replace). Also, 
>quotes do not seem to be coming out correctly.

The NeXT keyboard mapping is different than the Mac keyboard
mapping, and Apple File Exchange will likely not touch these
characters.

If you're at all a UNIX hacker, look into the "tr" program,
although it's a bit incomprehensible if you've never used it.
Or somebody could write a little filter program....

-- 
 Glenn Reid				RightBrain Software
 glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us		PostScript/NeXT developers
 ..{adobe,next}!heaven!glenn		415-851-1785