12 Nov
2004
12 Nov
'04
2:51 a.m.
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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