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From: timur@seas.gwu.edu (The Time Traveler)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: old IBM Xyrite word processor
Keywords: xyrite
Message-ID: <2536@sparko.gwu.edu>
Date: 15 Jan 91 00:02:53 GMT
References: <2825@sixhub.UUCP> <1991Jan14.213301.9993@csun.edu>
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In article <1991Jan14.213301.9993@csun.edu> adcscafh@csunb.csun.edu (Jerald Josephs) writes:
>
>	We have a need to convert a file written with the XYRITE
>word processor to either ascii or, better yet, the WordPerfect
>file format.	We have never heard of XYRITE, apparantly it is
>a rather old IBM product...
>	
>	Has anyone out here heard of this word processor?
>	Where can I get a copy?
>
If you're talking about XyWrite, then you're talking about a product
that is very much alive and well.  XyWrite produces ASCII files to
begin with, although there are embedded commands.  The commands are
surrounded by chevrons, so they are easy to remove with an search/replace
function that supports variable-length wildcards.  The only other problem
is that there are no carriage returns in a paragraph.

I have XyWrite.  If you want, I can convert the text for you.
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