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Richard Walwyn wrote:
> 
> I have an old friend - he is 74 actually - who has used WriteNow on his
> IIcx since 1989 and thus has many hundreds of precious WriteNow files.He
> now needs to use the web, and the old IIcx is due to be pensioned off. The
> problem is that the version of WriteNow he has is not 32-bit-clean, so will
> not run on a new Mac. I believe there may have been a 32 bit clean version
> of the program, but it has been out of production for some time. Does
> anyone have any suggestion as to a possible source?

This isn't quite the answer you were looking for but ClarisWorks claims to be
able to import WriteNow files (caveat:I don't have any so I can't test it)
which may be good enough since most new Macs come with ClarisWorks
pre-installed. The Web features of ClarisWorks Office (or version 5.0) make
Web publishing of docs easy so if any of these old files are intended for the
Web then this may be a neat solution.

If you like, I'm happy to try reading one or two of his files into ClarisWorks
to see how well it works.

Regards,

-- 
Bruce Horrocks
Hampshire
England
bh@granby.demon.co.uk

Bruce Horrocks <bh@granby.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Richard Walwyn wrote:
> > 
> > I have an old friend - he is 74 actually - who has used WriteNow on his
> > IIcx since 1989 and thus has many hundreds of precious WriteNow files.He
> > now needs to use the web, and the old IIcx is due to be pensioned off. The
> > problem is that the version of WriteNow he has is not 32-bit-clean, so will
> > not run on a new Mac. I believe there may have been a 32 bit clean version
> > of the program, but it has been out of production for some time. Does
> > anyone have any suggestion as to a possible source?
> 

> Regards,

I've got version 4, and it runs perfectly happily on a PowerMac7200, and
it is certainly 32 bit clean. You might want to try either Macline, or
DabsDIrect.
-- 
'ric