Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!apple!dan
From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Various: CD-ROM, Color, File Formats, Sound
Message-ID: <15245@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 7 Aug 88 03:47:18 GMT
References: <1270@hodge.UUCP>
Reply-To: dan@apple.apple.com.UUCP (Dan Allen)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <1270@hodge.UUCP> bmenell@pnet06.cts.com (Bryan Menell) writes:
>>I am looking for a xfnc or xcmd for hypercard which will allow me to
>>filter a Word file as I read it into a card field.
>
>   You might try Port Authority, written by Steve Michel and distributed
>by Heizer software (415) 943-7667, orders (800) 888-7667. The cost
>is $25.

Port Authority only imports text files.  It does not do any stripping of
formats found in Word files.  The solution is to save Word documents as
Text Only, and then there are many scripts that use the built-in
HyperTalk primitives to import text.

Dan Allen
Apple Computer