Re: Conversion from Xywrite 3.55 to Word

[Robert Holmgren holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to note from xywrite@xxxxxxxx Fri, 6 Feb 1998 10:07:13 -0500 (EST)

> I, however, am only a helpless writer and need additional help. What is the
> /N switch? Is there a help file to explain the above switches and commands?
> Or can someone explain them to me?

Ah, yes, hmmm... the /N switch. I was hoping that, with due restraint and
mutual discretion, we could somehow put this issue to the side, and simply
press on, _try_, without alice aforethought, the procedure that I described.
But now you've pushed it recklessly into the open; and so, the time has come to
talk of many things: of shoes, and ships, and sealing wax; of cabbages
and kings; and why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings. What
I'd do -- I haven't tried this, but I'd just venture boldly forth and do
it anyway -- is execute two commands from DOS:

W4W17F.EXE xyfilename /N /V1
W4W44T.EXE winwordfilename /N /V1

Then send the result to your publisher or editor or whoever, and see if he
likes it. If the /N switch concerns you (and I haven't a clue what it does,
and, no, there's no help file -- this is all "received wisdom" passed down
from mouth to mouth through the generations ad infinitum), then -- I weep
for you, I deeply sympathize; omit the /N switch & try that out for size.