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From: hlee@cs.umn.edu (Huan-Chih Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Word 4.0 to WordPerfect for DOS???????
Message-ID: <1990Mar14.022429.25208@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 90 02:24:29 GMT
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Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis - CSCI Dept.
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In article <1815@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb) writes:
>Greetings,
>
>  A fried of mine started writing his thesis on a Macintosh in Microsoft Word,
>but he wants to finish it on his own machine (IBM-clone), now that it's
>working again.  He's using WordPerfect (I don't know the version, but it's
>apparently the newest one).  We tried saving the file using Word's Save As
>Word/DOS option, transfering the file to the IBM with a binary transfer (since
>the Word manual claims it's in the exact binary format for the IBM), and then
>running WordPerfect's convert utility on it.  The problem is, that the convert
>utility doesn't think it's a Word file.
>
>  We don't have access to a Dayna 5-1/4" floppy drive, nor does his IBM have a
>3-1/2" drive so that we could use my FDHD, so modem is the only way.
>
>  Does anybody have any experiences doing this?  What works?
>
>Thanks,
>--Mike

One way you might try is that save as Rich Interchange Format on Mac.
Then transfer this ascii file onto IBM without any other conversion.

Once you done that, you can open the file in WordPerfect on IBM.

P.S. Remember to save as text file only if you would like to transfer it
     back to Mac.

Comment: I can not see any good when I do word processing on IBM.

Darda