Re: Converting files to RTF?

  • From: Nicholas Clifford <clifford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:59:26 -0400

Ralph Dumain wrote:

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<rdumain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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://www.serve.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.

  --
Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxxxx






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This probably won't be much help, but it's precisely for problems like this that I keep an ancient copy of Word 95 on my computer, as well as an equally ancient copy of Adobe File Utilities 1.0, which has a bunch of conversion utilities on it, including not only Xy II and III, but Signature (works well for Xy IV), to say nothing of Wordstar and others. If you can somehow lay your hands on a copy of the Adobe, you'll find it works OK, not great, but OK. 

Nicholas Clifford


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