From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: WP51/WP42 conversion
Message-ID: <1991Mar08.112649.13055@cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 8 Mar 91 11:26:49 GMT

>>>>> vdputten@ravel.inria.fr (Frits Van Der Putten) (FvdP) writes:

FvdP> Does anyone have a source (or a script) that translates Word Perfect
FvdP> documents (version 5.1 or 4.2) into plain ASCII (or LATEX)?  I
FvdP> brought several documents with me written in Word Perfect and no one
FvdP> here is using it so I can't read them any more.

There is a wp2latex (for wp5.0/1) program in our archives:

How to get wp2latex.arc from the archive at
	Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University:

NOTE: In the following I have assumed your mail address is john@highbrow.edu.

    Of course you must substitute your own address for this. This should be
    a valid internet or uucp address. For bitnet users name@host.BITNET
    usually works.  

by FTP: (please restrict access to weekends or evening/night (i.e. between
about 20.00 and 0900 UTC).

    ftp archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5]
    user name: anonymous or ftp
    password: your own email address (e.g. john@highbrow.edu)
    cd /pub
    don't forget to set binary mode if the file is a tar/arc/zoo archive,
    compressed or in any other way contains binary data.
    get TEX/TOOLS/wp2latex.arc

by mail-server:

send the following message to
mail-server@cs.ruu.nl (or uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!mail-server):

    begin
    path john@highbrow.edu (PLEASE SUBSTITUTE *YOUR* ADDRESS)
    send TEX/TOOLS/wp2latex.arc
    end

NOTE: *** PLEASE USE VALID INTERNET ADDRESSES IF POSSIBLE. DO NOT USE
ADDRESSES WITH ! and @ MIXED !!!! BITNETTERS USE USER@HOST.BITNET ***

The path command can be deleted if we receive a valid from address in your
message. If this is the first time you use our mail server, we suggest you
first issue the request:
    send HELP
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