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From: mikep@ism780c.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Emacs to Multimate conversion
Keywords: Emacs Multimate Conversion
Message-ID: <9000@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 88 00:21:38 GMT
References: <8801261730.AA26717@icst-cmr.arpa.ARPA> <2718@oxtrap.UUCP> <1122@kodak.UUCP>
Reply-To: mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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Posted: Wed Feb 10 19:21:38 1988

In article <1122@kodak.UUCP> borchert@kodak.UUCP (cliff borchert) writes:
>I use Emacs (GNU/Micro) on several systems, however, when communicating
>with the less enlightened within my company I have to use Multimate, an IBM
>PC based word-processor. Does anyone know of a way to convert back and forth
>between the two, without large doses of hacking?  Thanks for the help.

Since GNU uses ASCII files, it's just a matter of converting from
ASCII to MM format.  

To convert from ASCII -> MM, you have to use the "util" program
and access the file conversion tools.  This is long and slow, but
the only way to do it using just the package w/o hacking.

To convert from MM -> ASCII, you could also use the "util" program,
but it's slow.  There is a faster method in this direction.  Print
the document (MM) to a file using the "CRLF" printer filter.  This
will produce ASCII and be a hell of a lot faster than using util.

DISCLAIMER:  it's been about a year since I farted with MM, so
this may be totally wrong.

-MikeP