cng@otter.hpl.hp.com (Cheh Goh) (03/16/89)
Does anyone out there know of a simple way of transferring a book worth of manuascript (a few hundred pages) in Locus to MacWrite?
fad@think.COM (Franklin A Davis) (03/21/89)
In article <3070001@otter.hpl.hp.com> cng@otter.hpl.hp.com (Cheh Goh) writes: >Does anyone out there know of a simple way of transferring a book >worth of manuascript (a few hundred pages) in Locus to MacWrite? I think you will have big problems managing a book's worth of text in MacWrite, unless you break it into small sections. You would do much better with a higher-powered word processer for the Mac, such as MS-Word or FullWrite Professional. To transfer the text, you need to be able to save it as ASCII. There should be a command for that in Locus (what machine is that on?) Then, you can use various file-transfer methods to move the files. Kermit is a simple solution for transferring files, the program is free, it runs on pretty much every machine, and it handles basic ascii text conversions, such as newlines. It does NOT help you preserve formatting information, such as fonts and type sizes. Other file transfer programs would work fine. --Franklin franklin a davis Thinking Machines Corp. Cambridge, MA 02142 617-876-1111 <fad@think.com> {topaz, harvard, uunet}!think!fad If you plant ice, you're gonna harvest wind