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HELP!!! PFS:Write (pascal)



Okay, here is the problem:

Person has small documents to create, knows PFS:Write (PASCAL version) and
absolutely, stubbornly refuses to use Apple Writer ][e, AppleWorks, or any
other program that uses a conventional file structure.  Unfortunately,
this person also desires to transfer those documents to a MessyDOS PC
running PageMaker to create a newsletter (different user insists on using
PageMaker PC).

Caught in the middle is the Apple ][ specialist (me) with access to:
o a ROM  01 GS
o an unenhanced ][e
o a whole room full of Macintosh Quadra's with Internet connection
o an account on a UNIX file server

Okay.  If I can get the text file into either DOS 3.3 or ProDOS, I can get
it transferred to the Macintosh, and from there to the UNIX machine where
the PageMaker user can pick it off and bring it into PageMaker.  That
works; we did it last month with a DOS 3.3  AppleWriter ][e document.

SOLUTION:
On the wuarchive.wustl.edu, and in the Merit software archive at umich,
there is a program called WRT.CONVERT to convert from PFS:Write (Pascal)
over to ProDOS TXT.  

PROBLEM:
WRT.CONVERT doesn't work.  Initially, I thought it might be a problem with
the GS, so I tried running it on a ][e, which also didn't work.  I get a
document header, and one line of garbage.

SO...
Does anyone have a better method for getting PFS:Write Pascal files
translated into something worthwhile?  Perhaps a version of WRT.CONVERT
that does work?  This is driving me positively nuts!

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
(Some people swear by ProDOS.  In the past few hours, I've been swearing
AT it.)