Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!mailrus!ames!pacbell!pbseps!rdp
From: rdp@pbseps.UUCP (Richard Perlman)
Newsgroups: pb.unix,pb.micro,pb.micro.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Converting (WordStar || 1-2-3) ==> ASCII
Keywords: ASCII conversion WordStar Lotus
Message-ID: <241@pbseps.UUCP>
Date: 7 Sep 88 16:33:45 GMT
Reply-To: rdp@pbseps.PacBell.COM (Richard Perlman)
Organization: Pacific Bell Separations, San Francisco, CA
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I am looking for a program (filter) to translate WordStar and/or
Lotus 1-2-3 documents to POA (Plain Old ASCII).  I realize each
of these programs has this capability built in, they do not
serve the needs of the specific applications I am working on.

* I would like to do the WordStar => ASCII conversion on the fly in
  a .bat file (without having to run WordStar) as part of a file
  transfer operation.

* While 1-2-3's "print-to-file [.prn] works for most applications,
  in this particular case the file is "wider" than 240 characters and
  1-2-3 insists on paneling the output file, which I must then 
  "paste" back together again (minor pain).

BTW, in both cases the output goes to a UNIX (Sequent) system 
so the conversion could take place in either the MS-DOS or UNIX
environments.

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