scott@max.u.washington.edu (06/06/90)
In article <1990May30.134551.3061@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, gdr2f@boole4.acc.Virginia.EDU (George D. Randels) writes: > Help! (please) Does anyone know of any programs that will convert commodore > programs to ibm-pc format. I'll want to do this on the ibm-pc. My first > project (at least the first immediate one I want to accomplish) is a conversion > from Bank Street Writer to WordPerfect. > > George Randels > gdr2f@virginia.edu If you mean transfering the work-files of wordprocessors for the C64 to the IBMs, it would depend on the wordprocessor. Most wordprocessors come with a feature that will allow you to save the work-files as pure ASCII files or/and PETASCII files (if it can only dump it as PETASCII, then you need a simple convertion prg to go from PETASCII to ASCII convertion). And most wordprocessors are capable to read ASCII-text-files. So, having gotten the work-files as ASCII-files, it is a simple matter of transfering the ASCII-text-files from one computer to the other via the modems. By the way, I do this all the time. I write things like reports and essays at home using the C64 and I save them as ASCII-files. Then I dial-in to the university's mainframes and upload the files. I like to to this because from the mainframes I can get a nice laser printout, and also when I arrive to the school and pickup the output, if there is some new revision that needs to be made, I can access the mainframe through one of the terminals at school (or I can transfer the files to one of the school's IBMs and use Word5) and make the necessary changes right away. Usually when I send the ASCII-text-files from the C64 to the mainframe, right after that I issue the command for laser printing it. And by the time I arrive to the university the output is ready for me to pick it up and turn it in to the professor......it makes for a nice-timing for those tight dead-lines (that happens more often than I have the nerves for) :-) Sincerely, Scott K. Stephen P.S. School is finally out for me.....and I am GLAD!! Have a fun summer.
gdr2f@boole4.acc.Virginia.EDU (George D. Randels) (06/07/90)
Thanks to those of you who have taken the trouble to reply. Unfortuantely, coverting files to ascii and then doing a file transfer is something I want to avoid (the coverting to ascii, that is). What I want to do is to convert a commodore file in a particular format (e.g., Bank Street Writer) to a particular dos format (e.g., WordPerfect). I could transfer a commodore file via modem to an ibm-pc, and then run this program to convert to WordPerfect format. [Or, convert to WordPerfect format and then do the file transfer if there is such a program written for the commodore.] I have heard of one such file for the ibm-pc -- it's called Word for Word, which supposedly will convert commodore files to particular dos formats (among other things) after the files have been transferred to the pc. Are there any shareware or public domain programs that do the same job as Word For Word? -- George Randels University of Virginia Dept. of Religious Studies (gdr2f@virginia.edu)