Re: XYWRite->Anything else

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From: David D Auerbach
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 23:43

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jasonp@bungee.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Jason Pascucci) writes:


>I posted this question to comp.sys.ibm,pc.misc, and recieved no 
>response, so I thought I'd try here...

>Are there any programs which would translate XYWrite doc
>format to something else? I don't own XYWrite, but expect
>to be getting some documents in it soon, and I'm
>kind of looking for an XYWrite->Postscript,
>through any number of steps you'd care to mention. 

>I don't expect to buy XYWrite anytime soon...it's
>$455 pricetag seems outrageous for what it does. 

>Thanks!
>--
>Jason R. Pascucci
>jasonp@primerd.prime.com
You can buy XyWrite for about $200 for some mailorder places.
One of the advantages of Xy is that the documents are straight ascii, with
the formatting codes stored as markup codes enclosed between guillmets
(ascii 174 and 175).  Also XyWrite comes with a Postscript driver so that
you can use its type to file command to essentially trnaslate those codes
to a corresponding postscript file.  But in any case xywrite files are
perfectly readable by anything that can read ascii and the markup codes are
relatively obvious ( <<rm65>> means right margin 65, e.g.).

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