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From: jim@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU (Jim Providakes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: WordPerfect Problems
Message-ID: <1058@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU>
Date: 7 May 89 20:13:13 GMT
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Organization: Cornell Space Plasma Physics Group
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In article <8123@pyr.gatech.EDU> ccastgn@pyr.gatech.EDU (Gautham Nalamada) writes:
>I am having problems converting Mac WP files to IBM and the other way round also,What
>Any Pointers to help me out.   
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	Our group routinely go between IBM PC and the MAC SE or II or SE/30 
with WordPerfect.  We use Upload the files to our Vax using Kermit.  It is 
important that use use binary mode for file transfer.  The WordPerfect file
is a binary file!.  Set the file transfer mode to "set file type binary". 
All of the format commnads transfer just fine.  The only problem is the 
IBM extended characters do not map to the same chararacters on the MAC and 
visa versa.  In fact what is really nice about Word Perfect is the WordPerfect
on an VAX is also compatible with our MACs.  By the way, make sure you have 
version 1.0.2 of Word Perfect.  All of the bugs that we are aware of have 
been corrected.  Now, the MAC WordPerfect is software that I would recommend. 
We use it for photo-ready copy in our sibmittals to many technical journals.