Re: converting Xywrite text files en masse to Word?

[Judith Davidsen jdavidsen@xxxxxxxx]

There's been some fairly recent discussion on this list
about getting Windows98, which has enough of a dos component
to accept Xywrite, installed on a new computer. Sounds like
it's a matter of asking.

For publishers who insist on Word, I use Tim Baehr's
fax.pgm, which also was posted on this list fairly recently.
It opens in Wordpad, but I changed the path in the program
to the one for Winword(very easy to do). Within seconds, the
file opens in Word and I email directly from there, or cut &
paste into an email for those who don't want attachments.
Leslie Bailler has pointed out that it's not really
necessary to change the extension to .doc.

Hope this helps
Judith Davidsen

ArtL7@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Dear Xyrite mavens: I know how I currently convert, one file at a time,
> Xywrite to Word for use by editors and myself later at other computers: I
> type in a macro command (I think it's called) that strips out the specialized
> symbols in Xywrite (the macro command has the instruction lp e-mail.prn, and
> it was prepared for me by an expert, presumably loads in a macro filed called
> "e-mail.prn"). And then I send from my Xywrite directory that file to
> mydocuments folder the file, renamed with .doc suffix. Presto: I have a Word
> document. But how do I do that for hundreds of important files I have on
> Xywrite? I'm using Xywrite III+, the DOS version. But in the new computers
> you buy today, there's no allowance for an MS-DOS program, so how can I
> convert hundreds of selected text files to Word and strip out the Xywrite
> symbols that make Xywrite files virtually unreadable in Word? I don't have
> much in the way of computer skills myself, so I want to know if there's a
> prexisting program out there that does that , or is there a file on a Xywrite
> website that you can download, or what any of you would suggest? Thanks, Art.