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Re: Waterloo Script to Word Perfect??

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From: Klaus Kretschel
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 16:26
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On Thu, 5 Nov 92 11:01:04 ECT John Hagan said:
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>I have a researcher here who is switching from Waterloo Script (89.1) to
>Word Perfect (5.0 or 5.1?).  Obviously, he can read his Script files into Word
>Perfect as text files but then he has to get rid of all those nasty control
>words and reformat his document.  Is there a way to bring a formatted Script
>file into Word Perfect?  I didn't have an answer for him and I know very little
If you don't find a better way to preserve the additional information provided
by control words, you can format your text for a terminal device and put the
output into Word Perfect.

Klaus Kretschel
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