[comp.sources.wanted] Wanted: MS Word or RTF to ?roff conversion

jonathan@cs.pitt.edu (Jonathan Eunice) (04/16/91)

Are there any programs available to convert from MS Word 4.0 or Rich Text
Format (RTF) to ?roff?

I found a MacWrite-to-?roff converter in a SIMTEL mirror, and at worst
I can file out from Word to MacWrite, then convert that.  That's a
painful route, however, and one that's sure to lose much in the
translation.  Is there a more direct route?

hugues@adesign.uucp (Hugues Lafarge) (04/17/91)

There's a RTF file reading tool available for anonymous FTP on host
indri.primate.wisc.edu (address 128.104.230.11) in the directory
~ftp/pub/RTF which contains among other things a program named rf2troff

bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) (04/18/91)

From article <10416@pitt.UUCP>, by jonathan@cs.pitt.edu (Jonathan Eunice):
> Are there any programs available to convert from MS Word 4.0 or Rich Text
> Format (RTF) to ?roff?

anonymous ftp to indri.primate.wisc.edu (128.104.230.11), look in
the pub/RTF directory.

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dubois@primate.wisc.edu                   have job control." -- LAN TIMES

dave@mgc.uucp (Dave Lockwood) (04/19/91)

In article <10416@pitt.UUCP> jonathan@cs.pitt.edu (Jonathan Eunice) writes:
>Are there any programs available to convert from MS Word 4.0 or Rich Text
>Format (RTF) to ?roff?
>
>I found a MacWrite-to-?roff converter in a SIMTEL mirror, and at worst
>I can file out from Word to MacWrite, then convert that.  That's a
>painful route, however, and one that's sure to lose much in the
>translation.  Is there a more direct route?

And is there a *roff to RTF format? Now that WOULD be useful...

Thanks in advance!
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