Re: Converting files to RTF?

[Ralph Dumain rdumain@xxxxxxxx]

Thanks. This is what I found:

http://holmgren.home.acedsl.com/filters.htm

This is DOS-based conversion. I'm still using Windows 2000 Professional,
but I don't think I can drop down to DOS from there. I still have an
older Windows 95 computer gathering dust, so in a pinch I guess I'd have
to use that if there's no easier way. Ultimately, I need to convert my
files to RTF or HTML. I can't afford to squander money on FileMerlin for
the paltry level on which I'm operating.


Also, my original files are XyWrite II+, not XyWrite III, but hopefully
the file formats are identical. I did not do anything enormously complex
with XyWrite.


I find the instructions rather confusing, but it seems that these would
apply:


Export from Xy3+ to Microsoft's Rich Text Format:

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W4W17F.EXE ThreePlus_source_filename /N /V1
 then generate a Rich Text Format result in the Latin-1 (CodePage 850)
charset:

W4W19T.EXE RTF_target_filename /N /V0pa

There must be an easier way. Does the converter pack for Windows 2000
support conversion from XyWrite?


On 7/8/2010 11:04 AM, Carl Distefano wrote:

----- Original Message ----
From: Ralph Dumain
 

Greetings. I have a large archive of old files written with XyWrite II + back
in the stone age of DOS. I would like to convert these old files to rich text
format (*.rtf). Is there a program or utility I can use which will accomplish
this?
  


Is the stone age over? I hadn't heard....

Here's my suggestion: Visit XyWWWeb,http://users.datarealm.com/xywwweb/, and use
your browser's Find function (Ctrl-F) to search for "filters". Then follow the
link for detailed instructions.

If you have questions along the way, come back here and we'll try to help.

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Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxx