1)  The free WordPerfect approach noted in previous discussions seems to 
require a fairly complex installation of some form of Classic 
capabilities on Intel Macs, which I'm not eager to tackle [1],  in order 
to support the WordPerfect app.

2)  Might be interesting if some eager expert could set up a web-based 
(and donation-supported) conversion site, to which you could send 
WriteNow docs and get text or Word back.

3)  I do have some success in extracting the text from old WriteNow docs 
by opening them in BBEdit and stripping out all the formatting stuff 
(though there's an awful lot of stuff to be stripped out).  Anyone have 
a BBEdit macro for this task?

4)  Anyone have a way to search for all the WriteNow docs on a HD using 
Spotlight? (in Tiger, in my case)  I thought the Creator code for 
WriteNow was nX^2, but Spotlight doesn't seem to be able to search 
successfully for that, even if you activate "Creator" as one of the 
favorites in the Cmd-F search window.


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[1]  Because doing this appears to be a bit complicated, requires time 
for doing and learning, and won't be useful to me for anything else.

In article <siegman-83C6BE.09003603042008@nntp.stanford.edu>, AES
<siegman@stanford.edu> wrote:

> 3)  I do have some success in extracting the text from old WriteNow docs 
> by opening them in BBEdit and stripping out all the formatting stuff 
> (though there's an awful lot of stuff to be stripped out).  Anyone have 
> a BBEdit macro for this task?

Have you tried the "Zap Gremlins" menu item in BBEdit?

I had occasion recently to extract email addresses from an Entourage
mail file. I couldn't figure out what the format of the file was, but I
could see the email text was in it using BBEdit and 'od -c'. I wrote a
Perl program to read the file and save every consecutive sequence of 10
or more ASCII characters. I was able to extract all of the usable text
that way. I can send you the program, or you can send me a sample file
and I can try to extract the text. (jimsgibson at gmail dot com).

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In message <siegman-83C6BE.09003603042008@nntp.stanford.edu> 
  AES <siegman@stanford.edu> wrote:
> 1)  The free WordPerfect approach noted in previous discussions seems to 
> require a fairly complex installation of some form of Classic 
> capabilities on Intel Macs, which I'm not eager to tackle [1],  in order 
> to support the WordPerfect app.

Last time I looked it was a one-button install.  Sure, it installed 1437 things,
but all you did was push the button, Frank.


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In article <slrnfvcnej.cvd.g.kreme@cerebus.local>,
 Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

> In message <siegman-83C6BE.09003603042008@nntp.stanford.edu> 
>   AES <siegman@stanford.edu> wrote:
> > 1)  The free WordPerfect approach noted in previous discussions seems to 
> > require a fairly complex installation of some form of Classic 
> > capabilities on Intel Macs, which I'm not eager to tackle [1],  in order 
> > to support the WordPerfect app.
> 
> Last time I looked it was a one-button install.  Sure, it installed 1437 
> things,
> but all you did was push the button, Frank.

Lewis-

Please elaborate.  I'm only familiar with the "a bit complicated" 
approach.  I recall that there were two programs reported to provide 
Intel Classic, but a ROM image from an old computer was required for 
either.  Is that ROM image incorporated into the installer for one of 
the programs?

Fred

In message <fmmck-89DC07.15010404042008@nntp.aioe.org> 
  Fred <fmmck@aol.com> wrote:

> I recall that there were two programs reported to provide 
> Intel Classic, but a ROM image from an old computer was required for 
> either.  Is that ROM image incorporated into the installer for one of 
> the programs?

Ah.. that I don't know, I was looking for a PPC machine.  Didn't occur to 
me that an Intel Mac might need a PPC ROM file.

Found this though:

<http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/macintosh.html>
"If you have an Intel-based Mac (or if you have a PowerPC-based Mac with OS X
10.5 or later), you should ignore the rest of this page, and visit the Yahoo 
WordPerfectMac group for instructions on downloading, installing, and using
Sheepshaver and WordPerfect for the Mac."

<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wordperfectmac/>

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