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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