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- From: jimdawson@cup.portal.com (Jim R Dawson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Looking for WP
- Message-ID: <74108@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 19:01:25 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <73885@cup.portal.com>
- <1993Jan19.134307.19958@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- >In article <73885@cup.portal.com> jimdawson@cup.portal.com (Jim R Dawson)
- >writes:
- >>Can anyone sugguest a word processor suitable for writing documentation
- >>files for a freely distributable program in ASCII, or a utility to convert
- >>ProWrite or Excellence! files into straight ASCII with formatting intact?
- >>(niether one does an acceptable job of saving an ASCII text file.)
- >>
- >>I need to keep all formatting (margins, indentation, page numbering,
- >>headers, footers) intact, and have formfeeds at the end of each page if
- >>possible.
- >
- >You might try selecting the GENERIC printer, running CMD, then
- >printing. The printer output gets captured to a file. You may
- >still have to filter the result to remove unwanted returns (ASCII 13).
-
- Thanks. ProWrite 3.31 still puts a little garbage in the file (most
- notabaly a null at the beginning of the file) but I think I can write a
- little ARexx script to filter that out with the CRs.
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- |Jim Dawson - Author of AmiQWK .QWK mail reader | jimdawson@cup.portal.com|
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