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From: PZ2@psuvm.psu.edu (David L. Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
Subject: Re: Word Star - ASCII
Message-ID: <91066.091212PZ2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 91 14:12:12 GMT
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In article <1991Mar07.095802.20833@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU>, casspe@jacobs.cs.orst.edu
(Penny Cass) says:
>
>        I am a Word Perfect user and not very familiar with Word
>        Star.  A friend typed a lot of text for me in word-star
>        but doesn't know how to save it in ASCII.  When I try
>        to read his document into Word Perfect 5.0 with Text In/Out
>        I get a lot of hierogliphics.  Any help appreciated!

Two approaches:
  You can save it as a Non-document from WordStar (Used to be 'N' from the
  main menu.)

  You can use WordPerfect's CONVERT.EXE program, which will convert to or
  from WordStar 3.3 (which will take care of most of the imbedded commands
  from any version of WordStar).  Start CONVERT from the DOS command line of
  your WordPerfect directory.