Re: conversion from XyWrite to word

["Frank W. Brownlow" fbrownlo@xxxxxxxx]

Avi --

There are a number of ways, all I think involving a two-step process,
and so rather cumbersome. One way is to convert to RTF if you have it
available, and then let Word convert the RTF. What I do is use an
old version of Word (6.00) that I have archived on a DOS/Win3.1 machine.
The Word 6.00 converts Xywrite (My version is Signature), and although
Word 6.00 can't read the later versions of Word (the latest won't
even run on anything before XP), later versions of Word will read &
convert the earlier ones. It's been some time since I did a conversion,
but as I recall there are always a few details that need correcting.

Frank Brownlow

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 sacksa@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:38:01 -0500
> From: sacksa@xxxxxxxx
> To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: conversion from XyWrite to word
> X-Spam-Score: 1.19 (*) HTML_20_30,HTML_MESSAGE,NO_REAL_NAME
>
> Does there exist a program that converts (or nearly converts) a XyWrite
> document into Word? I can manually do this by calling up a XyWrite file
> in Word and using "find/replace" to get rid of the formatting commands. I
> must then insert bold and italicized formatting by hand.  Is there
> anything available out there that would do this for me?
>
>
> --
> Avi
> Avram Sacks
> Chicago, Ill