Old Typesetting files

[Mike Kenzie]

On Friday 12 November 2004 11:38, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> >Interesting.

> Of course then there is a book that I provided the computer support
> for.  It started on a Kaypro PC (something like an IBM AT clone), and
> finished on a P90 laptop.  In the end a 1200dpi printer had to be
> purchased as the book was written in WordPerfect (mostly WordPerfect
> for Windows 5.2, which is the format it was finished in), and by the
> time it was finished no one could handle the format.  The book was


I just finished pulling a few books off of floppies (5.25 and 3.5)  that 
were written in WP5.1.  I sent them back tot he author as plain text.  

Lotus wordpro had the filters needed to load and convert the files.


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