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Have you looked at the DOS "Oldies" at Simile or at Toma's repository in
Finland AR U of Vassa?
Directories of likes of " Word/Text Utilities" and "Word processing" and
"File Utilities" are recalled.

Yours is NOT a new problem - but one long ago solved.

Of course it may mean learning DOS. That sb MSDOS I guess.

Good Luck,
wwb
Preston Landers <planders@mail.utexas.edu> wrote in message
news:87iu8r8mzt.fsf@pbl.ddns.org...
> Hi there,
>
> I'm looking for a Free Software program/script/whatever to help me
> extract ASCII text out of miscelaneus ancient wordprocessor formats.
> In particular, various old versions of WordPerfect on both DOS and
> Mac.  I've searched the net high and low but haven't found ANYTHING to
> help me.  I can do a simple translation with a Perl script to strip
> out the 8-bit characters, but the document is still next to unreable
> (no line breaks, etc.)
>
> I thought there would be a GNU program to "get the text" out of a
> binary file but I can't seem to find it.  That still doesn't solve the
> problem of making it semi-readable (proper line formatting.)
>
> I actually wrote a short little Perl script to help with old Ami Pro
> documents, because Ami sensibly stored all information in 7-bit text.
> Thus, my script does a decent job of extracting and formatting these
> documents.  (Mail me if interested in a copy of that.)  It doesn't
> help with those heaps of old binary WordPerfect documents I've got
> lying around from the good old days.  Even recent versions of
> Wordperfect can't even convert the files!  And of course, I prefer a
> Free solution.
>
> help!  Thanks! :-)  Sorry if this isn't the proper forum for such an
> inquiry (I don't know what is.)
>
> Sincerely,
>
> ---Preston Landers