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From: straka@cbnewsc.att.com (richard.j.straka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Translation program for WordPerfect5(IBM) to WORD(Mac)
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.140533.13263@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 12 Mar 91 14:05:33 GMT
References: <1991Mar8.044752.559@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <5938@husc6.harvard.edu>
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In article <5938@husc6.harvard.edu> Cherry@Frodo.MGH.Harvard.EDU (J. Michael Cherry) writes:
|In article <1991Mar8.044752.559@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> 
|sci213v@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (mr  p    freeman) writes:
|> I have a document that was created with WordPerfect 5.0 on an IBM and I 
|> would like to be able to transfer it onto a Macintosh so that Microsoft
|> WORD can cope with it.  Does anyone know of a translator for Apple File 
|> Exchange or some other way of doing this successfully.
|
|MicroSoft has written the appropriate Apple File Exchange modules to 
|convert WordPerfect 4.x/5.0 files to Rich Text Format (RTF) which can be
|read by MS Word. I found the files on AppleLink. It works.

Sounds like a good opportunity to make use of comp.binaries.mac!
Not only for this translator, but for any other freeware/shareware AFE
translators, as well.
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Richard Straka                   |AT&T Bell Laboratories, IH-6K311
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