Re: [WinMac] Mac Word98 <-> Win Wordperfect

Curtis Wilcox(cwcx[at]uhura.cc.rochester.edu)
Wed, 09 Sep 1998 09:57:54 -0400

At 01:19 PM 9/8/98 -0000, jeff thorstad wrote:
>>Is there a way to successfully share documents between a Mac running
>>Word98 and Wintel based computers running Wordperfect? I have tried
>>MacLinkPlus translators, save as earlier versions of word for windows,
>>and save as RTF. None of these worked correctly. Is there an easy way
>>that I have missed?

I don't see how RTF couldn't have worked. Did the documents convert but not
include *all* the formatting? There may be formatting specific WordPerfect
which Word doesn't support (or does in a different way) or it could be
dependent on a font which the Mac doesn't have.

>I think version 10 of MacLinkPlus is supposed to have translators for
>this problem. It has just come out, have you tried this version? Either
>that, or the next version due soon because of OS 8.5 will have it. I seem
>to remember a comment somewhere about this.

If WordPerfect is version 8, MacLinkPlus 10 probably includes the
translator. However I don't think MacOS 8.5 will have it. Starting with
systems shipped with 8.1, Apple has stopped bundling MacLinkPlus. I think
this is a mistake but they didn't ask me.

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