On 16 Dec 00 at 0:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date sent: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 21:43:25 0 From: Antonio Quatraro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: word5 for dos to plain text converter > Hi listers, > > does anybody know whether and where to find a converter from word5 for >DOS to plain ASCII text? > Thanks in advance > > Antonio Quatraro > Antonio, 1. if you still use word5 then be careful, because there is a Y2K bug which appears if you save documents in Word 5. Word 5.5 and Word 6.0 are working well and file structure is almost identical. 2. file structure is very simple, so you could perhaps write a converter of your own: Text is in the center part of the file. Just cut off header and tail. 3. As an example I post a small utility. I wrote it in basic to convert mainly codepage within Word documents. It can be downloaded at: http://www.volny.cz/transfer.zip Regards Christof Lange - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.volny.cz/christianpeace To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
