Re: atari ST diskettes on PC

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From: Charles Richmond
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 03:03

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Steve Marshall wrote:
> 
> "Philippe Cousson" <philippe.cousson1@libertysurf.fr> wrote
> 
> > No, what I mean is how to get files, mainly texts, from diskettes first
> used
> > on an Atari ST, for use on a Windows PC.
> >
> 
> It helps if you have the same program on both machines so that it will
> recognise the formatting. not many people have PC versions of Atari word
> processors though.
> 
> Format a disk to IBM standard then save the file as doc or txt etc and see
> which  are useable on the PC. It depends what PC programs you have as to
> which will work best. The chances are you may have to reformat the document
> which may mean going through every line.
> 
There was a word processor for Atari that would load the
most common Atari word processor files, and let you save
them as .rtf (rich text format) files. These can be read
in by word, and maintain the formatting.

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