Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!littlei!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: import (convert) multiplan, wordstar to paradox
Keywords: import, multiplan, wordstar, paradox
Message-ID: <962@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jul 88 23:43:50 GMT
References: <31682@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
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In article <31682@pyramid.pyramid.com> long@pyramid.pyramid.com (Long Nguyen) writes:
<I am helping some friends to convert (import - in Paradox term) other data 
<bases, spreadsheets to Paradox.  Paradox, however, doesn't support multiplan 
<nor wordstar.  I have never used multiplan and wordstar. 
<
<Anybody out there has done it before or know how to do that?  I really 
<appreciate your response.

First of all, check and see if Paradox will read SYLK or WKS files. (WKS files
are Lotus 123 rel 1.x files). If it will read SYLK files, load the sheet
into Multiplan and  do a <T>ransfer <O>ption <Symbolic. Then do a
<T>ransfer <S>ave to save the file in SYLK format (preferrably to
a different name!). To load the next sheet, you'll have to do a 
<T>ransfer <O>ption <N>ormal and then do the <T>rasnsfer <L>oad.

For WKS files (only available on the later release of Multiplan)
<T>ransfer <L>oad 
<T>ransfer <O>ption <O>ther
<T>ransfer <S>ave filename.WKS (you *must* use the WKS extension!)
<T>ransfer <O>ption <N>ormal
and repeat for the next file...

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