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In article <1992Dec11.002212.7496@ncar.ucar.edu> you write:
>
>We need a translator to convert WordPerfect 5.1 to ascii,
>to make mail work better here at NCAR. Anybody have any
>ideas on how to make this happen? The mail originators
>cannot put their bannana down before sending those files
>over here ;-).
>
>Thanks in Advance....
>
>--Wayne

I have been writing translators for WP -> various ASCII without writing
a single line of code. Use the PTR program (it comes with every version
of WP since 4.2?) to modify the STANDARD.PRS printer driver. The most
important things you want to do are: 1) change the way character
attributes are handled (bolds, and underlines in particular). 2) change
the HMI and VMI and the way Carriage Return and Line Feed work.  Then
install you new print driver and tell WP that it is printing to a file
(saddly it must be a single file name so you have to deal with that).
This is something you have to play with to get right. But it is the
right way to do it, and it's free!


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