mckeeman@wivax.UUCP (05/31/84)
>>>Does anyone have any software for communications between a Wang >>>word processor and an IBM PC? I have a PC, and will have to >>>communicate with some Wang users... Glad to help. There are four versions of Wang WP (WangWriter, VS, OIS, PC). Wang has software that converts between them to 99% accuracy (perfectly acceptable). Emacs runs on the IBM PC. Call Unipress. There was an announcement on net.emacs. Diskettes are compatible between IBM and Wang PCs. So any text file that eventually gets into a Wang PC can get to the IBM PC. I often prepare documents in Wang PC WP at home, use the document-to-file conversion utility, download the file into my VAX through the VT100 emulator, and go from there, emacs or whatever. What you cannot do, of course, is use the internal form of a Wang WP document for anything outside the WP environment. Thus you lose underlines and the like, but the layout is kept by the conversion utility. I can prepare Scribe documents in WP without trouble, for instance. /s/ Bill McKeeman.Wang-Inst at CSNet-Relay ...decvax!wivax!mckeeman Wang Institute of Graduate Studies, Tyngsboro, MA 01879