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From: dennisg@felix.UUCP (Dennis Griesser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: MacWrite I to Ascii Text
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Date: 21 Jan 91 20:33:55 GMT
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In article <1991Jan14.053552.27705@gsm001.uucp> gsm@gsm001.uucp (Geoffrey S.
Mendelson) writes:
>I need a simple way of converting MacWrite I documents to Ascii Text.

How about using "save as" from MacWrite, then specifying that the file be
saved as ASCII text?  Yeah, you lose the formatting information.  But if you
are going to import it into a full-blown DTP package, you probably will
want to redo that all anyway.