Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!pasteur!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!willis From: willis@violet.berkeley.edu (Willis Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Word Processor Document Conversion Message-ID: <10442@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 1 Jun 88 06:01:18 GMT Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: willis@violet.berkeley.edu (Willis Johnson) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 23 In-Reply-To: <943@rlgvax.UUCP> I tried to respond directly to you but somewhere along the path your message got returned to me. I wrote to Word Perfect and they gave me a complete description of their file format. Just tell them that you need the information for conversion purposes, and that you won't make the information public. They were prompt and helpful when I called for info, as well. You'll need to decide whether you want to convert WP 4.2 or the new WP 5.0. They are QUITE different. You can expect a lot of people to use 4.2 until 1990, when it becomes officially obsolete (and support stops from WP Corp.). 5.0 requires a hard disk and most of its new features require AT LEAST hercules graphics. Microsoft is a whole other can of worms. In my experience they've been secretive and sometimes hostile to reasonable requests for information. Everything is a "proprietary trade secret." Like many others I know, I have decided not to offer any support for their products in my software (other than DOS, of course). Good luck! Willis Johnson willis@violet.BERKELEY.EDU