[WinMac] Re: WinMac Digest #251 - 03/12/99

John W. McCarthy(jwmcmac[at]flash.net)
Sat, 13 Mar 1999 01:55:01 -0600

Changhsu Liu,

Peter's reply was correct, but got the name of the product only a wee
bit wrong/incomplete.

It is called "MacLinkPlus" by Dataviz at less than $100/price for an up
to date subscription. As Peter said, a slightly older version (9.0 I
believe) comes free with OS 8.0 which can be gotten for about $34
dollars from some online Mac shopping places (<http://www.poweron.com> perhaps).

Dataviz also makes a do-the-same-thing Application for the Windows Crowd
that has the name "Conversions Plus" ($49 extra if you bought the OS 8.0
CD version of MacLinkPlus, I believe).

So many apps can convert/open so many other apps' files on the Mac that
conversion should not be a problem in the direction of PC to Mac. You
just have to remember to "Save as" and save them in a format that that
version of app will easily convert on the other platform. Most Mac
Users have been spoiled by MacLinkPlus and PC exchange/File exchange
working automatically in the background to help open and convert almost
any format.

Clarisworks is cross-platform and perhaps has the best translators short
of MacLinkPlus. MS Office 97 and 98 can be used.

But none of them do it the way MacLinkPlus and Conversions Plus do with
their "Document Converter" applet. For Graphics use DeBabelizer.

Also, as stated by yourself, TexEditPlus can be used on the Mac side to
do Dos-->Mac conversion of Text.

The latest version of TexEditPlus is AppleScriptable/Recordable --
really cool, which means you can record one conversion process from
start to finish and save it and use it to do multiple conversions with
perhaps no changes or only minor changes in the script.

If you record the conversion of only one file that you dragged onto
TexEditPlus, than any file of the same type that you dragged onto the
saved TexEdit-AppleScript-Applet should go through the same conversion process.

If you want to only convert text, TexEditPlus is the app to use.

I would bet that there is already a script built in or on the
TexEditPlus Web-site that would do such batch conversions. If so, this
could possible be found at <http://www.malcolmadams.com/te/> a very good
site for learning to use AppleScript with TexEdit.

One last way to do it is to send it over the internet (email it) to
yourself and it should get converted in the process automatically if you
use MIME.

Good Luck.

GodBlessUsAll

Patrick Kelly McCarthy

> Subject:
> RE: [WinMac] batch convert text between mac and pc
> Date:
> Fri, 12 Mar 1999 16:17:58 -0500
> From:
> PetersJB@nswccd.navy.mil
>
>
>
> If you have a copy of MacLink (bundled with some versions of MacOS 8.x) you
> can create a drag-and-drop document converters. One with MS-DOS Text as a
> destination document, the other with a Mac Text document destination.
> Dropping icons for existing documents initiates the translation.
>
> I've used it for batch WordPerfect-to-Word translations and singleton text
> conversions. Can't imagine that batch text conversions should be a problem.
>

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