Re: Word, Wordpad

[Judith Davidsen jdavidsen@xxxxxxxx]

Tim--

I finally broke down and experimented with changing the path
in the original fax.pgm from wordpad to word, and it worked!

Judith Davidsen


Judith Davidsen wrote:
>
> Tim--
>
> There was only one file, for wordpad but with a somewhat
> different line to be edited than the one in fax.pgm. Pad.pgm
> inserted
>
> start/w "c:
>
> between /c and \program files\, and left the quote marks off
> program files.
>
> Before editing the line, I figured I would take the new file
> out for a spin, wrote run pad.pgm on the cml, hit enter and
> watched as I not only did not arrive at wordpad, but the Xy4
> status line read out "Done. RTF temp file deleted."
>
> Did I do something wrong or is there a glitch here or do I
> have the wrong file or...?
>
> Can I take the original fax.pgm file and replace the wordpad
> path with a winword path to get it to open in word?
>
> thanks for your help
>
> Judith Davidsen
>
> TBaehr@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > Here are the programs that take a file, or a highlighted
> > portion of a file, and convert them to RTF and then call
> > them in Word or Wordpad. You'll have to modify the
> > programs, probably, to reflect the actual locations of the
> > destination programs. So far, I haven't been able to make
> > this work in Windows XP; the programs were written for
> > Win95 and should work with 98 and possibly NT.
> >
> > Either of these programs could be modified to open a
> > different program or save to a different format.
> >
> > Note: The attachment is Zipped and contains both programs
> > regardless of what AOL decides to call the Zip file.
> >
> > Note: Advance apologies for what AOL will do to try to
> > render this file in something other than plaintext.
> >
> > Tim Baehr
> >
> >        Name: Pad.ZIP
> >  Pad.ZIP  Type: WinZip File
> >           (application/x-unknown-content-type-WinZip)
> >      Encoding: base64