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>We are running WordPerfect 5.1 on our VAXcluster.
>We need to convert some documents that were generated in WordStar to
>WordPerfect.  The WordStar documents are currently on floppies.

You have 2 different problems: data transmission, and data
conversion.

I'll let you worry how to get files from a pc to the VAX.

Assuming you can work on the files with a PC first, there is a program
called 'asc2wp' out there in archiveland. It's simple, but clever. It
takes single <CR>'s and converts them into spaces. It takes <CR>CR>
pairs and turns THEM into one <CR>.

Then it turns <SP><SP> into <SP>, with an option to keep .<SP><SP> at
the ends of sentences alone.

Thus you get long, one line, paragraphs. WordPerfect handles these
just fine, thank you.

You might also want to get one of the many high-order bit strip
filter out there. They've been around since Wordstar was under
CPM 2.2. I can't remember if asc2wp does that, too.

What I do NOT recall, since it has been so long, is if there was
some way to also use the WordPerfect Convert program. That would
save the formatting such as BOLD, UNDERLINE, etc. The problem
with Convert is the double-space (caused by justification) one.




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