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From: roberts@cognos.uucp (Robert Stanley)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: need to convert from Wang WP30 8" floppies to ASCII
Message-ID: <1818@cognos.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 21-Nov-87 15:43:04 EST
Article-I.D.: cognos.1818
Posted: Sat Nov 21 15:43:04 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 26-Nov-87 23:48:54 EST
References: <2198@lsuc.UUCP> <960@deepthot.UUCP>
Reply-To: roberts@cognos.UUCP (Robert Stanley)
Distribution: ont
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
Lines: 35
Summary: KeyWord make a magic box

In article <960@deepthot.UUCP> zaphod@deepthot.UUCP writes:

>In article <2198@lsuc.UUCP> dave@lsuc.UUCP writes:
>
>>Someone here needs to get a large chunk of word processing data
>>from a Wang WP30 system (8" floppies) to a VAX running VMS.

>similiar problem here, only we need to go from IBM displaywriter
>to MS Word and/or pagemaker (we have both packages, eithor will do)

It's a while since I had to do this, but it is a reasonably common problem
here in Ottawa (what with all those incompatible government departmental
systems :-) ).  There are at least two agencies here in town that have this
sort of capability, and if you can't find one closer to home, e-mail me and
I'll look up the names and telephone numbers.

However, of more general interest is that an Alberta-based company called
KeyWord make a splendid magic box which, when added to a PC, allows for
interchange between all sorts of disks and a wide range of word-processing
formats.  Wang, Multimate, AES, WordStar all competently supported more than
two years ago when I last saw the system.  This box is in wide use here in
Ottawa, and I know that they had a Toronto office (two years ago).  It would
be worth trying to contact them, and finding out who locally offers a service
based on their system.

Please forgive my laziness, but I don't feel like chasing down 2-year old
references today.  If you need more than this, e-mail me, and I'll go look
things up.  (Well, what do your filing systems look like?)

Robert_S
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