Re: Looking for a program to convert Appleworks file to Plain ASCII...

[kls0@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kent Squires )]

yucath@leland.Stanford.EDU (Cathay Kwok Tai Yu) writes:

>Previously, someone mentioned that they wrote a program that could convert
>Appleworks WP files into plain ASCII.  I was wondering if there is a program
>that can easily convert Appleworks WP files in bulk.  Ideally, I would like
>to just select a bunch of files and the program would just strip out the
>Appleworks formats, remove any special control/commands, change the filetype
>to plain ASCII, and just save it using the same name.

>Currently, I am just using the built-in ProTerm editor to load and save.
>It gets a little tedious with the number of files/disks I need to transfer.
>I was just wondering if there exists a better way.

>You can reply by e-mail or net.  And thanks in advance.

Why not just use AppleWorks ability to print to a Text (ASCII) file?

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