Re: looking for UNIX utility to convert AW WP files

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <DEVERNAY.95Jan3141810@taquilee.inria.fr>,
Frederic Devernay <devernay@sophia.inria.fr> wrote:
>I'd like to convert my appleworks WP files to a format readable under
>unix, richtext (RTF) would be great, or plain text. Is there such a
>thing out there? I think there's something in GNO that converts
>appleworks files to text, do we have the source code somewhere?

   Such a thing already exists if you have access to AW. Just "Print
to Text File" from Appleworks ("classic", or just save as text from
AWGS), then upload that. I think the GNO program converts AWGS files
to sorta text (includes codes for underline, boldface, etc on
terminals that can handle it) format.

   A program to go from AW classic to text or rtf would be nice, but
it could really be a can of worms. AW files have text in them, but the
formatting codes are binary. (It keeps the length of the current line
and previous, I think at the start of each line). Therefore, if people
upload AW files as ascii files to unix, they'll be munged and a
converter couldn't handle them properly.

Nathan Mates
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