ccastgn@pyr.gatech.EDU (Gautham Nalamada) (05/07/89)
I am having problems converting Mac WP files to IBM and the other way round also,What
I have are a Mac II and an IBM AT and these are the steps I follow:-
a)Save the file on Mac as IBM4.2 format
b)Upload the file to a mainframe( in this case Sequent) using Mackermit
c)Download the file to the IBM AT using kermit.
d)convert the file to WP5.0 using Convert.exe
It is almost the same steps for the other way around except for uploading and
downloading the file.
My problems being that either the file opens with a lot Control characters or the
convert.exe deletes the file except for the first page.
Any Pointers to help me out.
My e-mail address is ccastgn@pyr.gatech.edu.
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Gautham Nalamada
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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ARPA: ccastgn@pyr.gatech.edujim@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU (Jim Providakes) (05/08/89)
In article <8123@pyr.gatech.EDU> ccastgn@pyr.gatech.EDU (Gautham Nalamada) writes: >I am having problems converting Mac WP files to IBM and the other way round also,What >Any Pointers to help me out. > --------- Our group routinely go between IBM PC and the MAC SE or II or SE/30 with WordPerfect. We use Upload the files to our Vax using Kermit. It is important that use use binary mode for file transfer. The WordPerfect file is a binary file!. Set the file transfer mode to "set file type binary". All of the format commnads transfer just fine. The only problem is the IBM extended characters do not map to the same chararacters on the MAC and visa versa. In fact what is really nice about Word Perfect is the WordPerfect on an VAX is also compatible with our MACs. By the way, make sure you have version 1.0.2 of Word Perfect. All of the bugs that we are aware of have been corrected. Now, the MAC WordPerfect is software that I would recommend. We use it for photo-ready copy in our sibmittals to many technical journals.
kg19+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kurt A. Geisel) (10/09/89)
I am having a few problems with WordPerfect. I would greatly appreciate any advice. 1) I recently upgraded to System 6.0.3 and LaserWriter Driver 5.2. In my previous System/LaserWriter, I could create PostScript files and print them from Unix with absolute reliability. Since I have upgraded, nothing printed from WordPerfect will even print one page. It just compiles to nothing on a standard LaserWriter. Yes, I am doing everything exactly the same as before, including the prepending of "%!", including LaserPrep and all that. While inconvenient, I can live with this because I can always take the disk to a Mac which is on AppleTalk and print from there. Still, it is strange that it worked before and not now. 2) Even when I successfully print, the output seems to be unusually UGLY. For one thing, the "Print Preview" seems to have NOTHING to do with the actual printed output- nothing lines up the way I formatted. For instance, I had major problems with a two-column document. The right edge of the left column was running over the left edge of the right column, while the measurements set up in WP would in no way allow that and the Print Preview showed nothing of the kind. Furthermore, what the Print Preview showed lying on a given page was often not even close to what page it wound up on. This sounds like an awfully inaccurate WYSIWYG... In all cases, I am using STANDARD Apple LaserWriters, WP 1.0.1 (I've ordered the 1.0.3 upgrade), and normal Helvetica fonts which I KNOW are on the LaserWriters- nothing fancy, no bitmaps, no custom PS, etc. Thanks, - Kurt Kurt Geisel SNAIL : Carnegie Mellon University 65 Lambeth Dr. ARPA : kg19+@andrew.cmu.edu Pittsburgh, PA 15241 UUCP : uunet!nfsun!kgeisel "I will not be pushed, filed, indexed, stamped, BIX : kgeisel briefed, debriefed, or numbered!" - The Prisoner