These utilities were compiled by the SSI User Support Group, PO
Box 1577, Baltimore, Maryland 21203.  They are available via the
support group electronic BBS at 301/889⌐7895 (8 data bit, No
parity, 1 stop bit, baud rates or 300/1200/2400 bps).  No
warranty or guarantee of fitness is provided with these packages. 
Users should always backup important data before performing
conversions.

Remember that no conversion from one format to another is going
to result in a perfect transformation.  These utilities do
overcome problems that users may face when moving data to/from
WordPerfect.

The CONVERT utility provided with the WordPerfect package on the
Learning disk should always be the utility of choice.  For
example, if the "source" word processor can output in IBM DCA
format and ASCII, choose DCA and run the resulting file through
CONVERT.  You will maintain more of the formatting codes that
way.

If you have any questions about these utilities, please contact
the support group directly and not the publishers of WordPerfect.

Good luck!
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¥ASCII CONVERSION£

Program:		ASCI2WP.COM

Author:		Alex Irving, New York, NY
			C Source code available on BBS

Syntax:		ASCI2WP inputfile > outputfile

Warnings:	╠
╠The input file name and output file name must not
be the same!  If they are the same, the original
file may be corrupted.▐J▐

Use:		╠
╠ASCII files from other word processors (or from a
WP [Text Out] may have hard returns ([HRt]'s) at
the end of all lines.  This makes it very
difficult to edit the document.  Normal WP text
has soft returns at the ends of all lines except
those that end paragraphs.  ASCI2WP is used to
change all solitary [HRt]'s to soft returns.  Hard
returns found in pairs are left alone.▐J▐

Limitations:╠
╠This technique works well on typed text where a
blank line separates paragraphs.  If paragraphs
are not ended by two or more hard returns, the
hard returns marking paragraph ends will be
removed as well.  The program will not handle
indented text, text with margins, or double spaced
text either.▐J▐


Program:		ASCIICLN.COM

Author:		Alex Irving, New York, NY
			C Source code available on BBS

Syntax:		ASCIICLN inputfile > outputfile

Warnings:	╠
╠The input file name and output file name must not
be the same!  If they are the same, the original
file may be corrupted.▐J▐

Use:╠
╠╠╠╠╠This program is very similar to ASCI2WP but it
converts the ASCII text input file to "streaming"
ASCII format instead of WP format.  This makes the
output more useable by typesetting and
communications systems.  ASCIICLN also strips tab
characters (they are not expanded).  Limitations
are the same as for ASCI2WP.▐J▐
▄j▄î¥ASCII CONVERSION con't£

Program:		STRIPCR.COM

Author:		E. Hall, location unknown

Operation:╠
╠This program also strips extra cr/lf pairs from a
DOS text file to create one long line per
paragraph.  This program also treats lines that
are indented by 4+ spaces as the start of a
paragraph as well.  It also has the option of
converting tabs to spaces based on evenly spaced
tab positions.  Type STRIPCR from DOS to get the
syntax and options available.▐J▐


Program:		TC.COM
			TC.DOC

Operation:╠
╠See the file TC.DOC for instructions on the use of
the program.  It was originally written for
Framework users and the documentation is geared
towards those users.  It may come in handy for
files with paragraphs indented by less than 4
characters without lines between them.▐J▐


Program:		TRANSLIT.COM
			TRANSLIT.DOC

Operation:╠
╠This is a general purpose translation utility. 
There are several examples that can be followed to
convert uppercase to lowercase and vice versa.  It
can also convert tabs to spaces and spaces to
tabs.  Arbitrary conversion is also possible.  See
the file TRANSLIT.DOC for details.▐J▐


Program:		TYPES.COM
			TYPES.DOC

Author:		SSI Software

Operation:╠
╠See the file TYPES.DOC for detailed instructions. 
The utility of this program is that it allows the
user to specify which hard returns should be
preserved by replacing them with (HRT) before
doing the WordPerfect [Text out].▐J▐
▄`▄¥dBASE III to WORDPERFECT MERGE (Secondary File)

£Program:		DB2WPSF.COM	⌐⌐ The DOS utility
			DB2WPSF.PRG	⌐⌐ The dBase III program
			DOSF.BAT		⌐⌐ Example DOS file for conversion
			SAMPLE*.TXT	⌐⌐ Example output from .PRG before
						   conversion

Author:		Alex Irving, New York, NY
			C Source available on BBS

Operation:╠
╠Use dBase III to edit the .PRG to match the format
of your database.  Use this dBase III program to
output the database with the ^R and ^E separating
the fields and records.  Process these files using
DB2WPSF.COM (see DOSF.BAT for an example of the
syntax).  Then, use WordPerfect merge to merge the
database info in any way you see fit!▐J▐

▄&▄¥PC⌐FILE to WORDPERFECT MERGE£

Program:		PCFIL⌐WP.EXE

Author:		Read Gilgen, Univ. of Wisconsin⌐Madison

Operation:╠
╠From DOS type the command PCFIL⌐WP.  Ignore the
comments about compiling the program; that has
been done for you.  We definitely suggest that you
use a backup copy of any database and not the
original.  Follow the programs prompts to do the
conversion of PC⌐FILE databases to WP merge
format.▐J▐
▄▄¥VOLKSWRITER to WORDPERFECT£

Program:		VWTOWP.COM

Operation:╠
╠This program works on Volkswriter files to convert
them to WordPerfect format.  Its utility with
Volkswriter 3 is unknown.  Program prompts for
input and output file.▐J▐
▄▄¥OTHER CONVERSIONS£

Program:		XWORD.EXE
			XWORD.DOC

Author:		Ron Gans, New York
╠
╠╠╠╠╠$15 contribution directly to Ron is suggested if
you use this conversion program regularly.▐J▐

Operation:╠
╠The operation of XWORD is discussed in detail in
the document XWORD.DOC.  We use XWORD for W*2000,
XYWrite II Plus (perhaps III as well), and other
types of translations.▐J▐

╠
╠╠╠╠╠One translation which removes control⌐H's
(backspaces) from a document is very easy with
XWORD.  Use the second menu's rEplace option. 
Enter the hex string "08" as the old and press
return for the new.  That will delete all ^H's
from the text.  Other conversions are possible
using XWORD as well.▐J▐


Program:		TEXT2.COM
			CAPITA.COM
			UPLOWDOC.WP  ⌐⌐ read using WordPerfect

Operation:╠
╠The program text2.com is a very useful translation
utility and filter.  The combination of these
programs allows you to convert databases from all
uppercase to upper and lower (same with documents
and messages written in all caps.  Comments to
Doug Boehmer on the BBS.▐J▐
