geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) (02/01/91)
[Posted for a friend: Please reply via email.] ---------------------------------------------------------------- For the last 5 years I've used an old Leading Edge XT clone, on which I used the Leading Edge WP package. Slow, limited, but adequate, with good file organisation capabilities. Finally I decided to update to a 20MHz 386 with VGA. I expected LEWP to run ok on this - it claims to run on any XT or clone - but when I start it up the screen blanks. Hitting CtrlAltDel echoes "^C" and it then tries to read drive B! There are two possible directions: (1) Make LEWP run on the new system. No clues here, so far - PCWATCH doesn't show any obviously bogus video BIOS calls, so I'm stuck on that track. (2) Migrate 5 years worth of accumulated LEWP files to a more modern WP - ideally Ami, but MS Word or WP will do. I've poked around the file format, and it's really bizarre - nothing I could begin to write a program to untangle without some clues. Exporting each file into ASCII, importing it to a new WP, and then trying to recreate pagination, fonts, boling, ruler settings, etc. is not my idea of fun. Any suggestions? Mike ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (geoff@East.Sun.COM) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- No cute comments. War isn't cute. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------