converting WP-WORD

[Yoshimasa Tsuji]

  |Could anyone tell me how to convert Russian WP (5.1) texts to WORD (97)?

The easiest method is
      1. let your WP load the text and save it with options: DOS text.
      2. let your MS Word load the text with the knowledge that it is
         a DOS text.
      3. If yours are not native Russian, you cannot do anything at all.

Note that
1. If you have no WP, but only WP text files, you need someone else's
   assistance. (I once wrote a utility that read a WP text file and
   converted it to a legible LaTeX file, but I cannot remember where I
   put it years ago). Newer WP runs under MS Windows and can save the
   text in Windows format, but I think WP5.1 dealt with DOS only.
2. If your MS Word is not a true Russian version, it cannot read a DOS
   text file. You will need a help of an MS Word owner with the right
   conversion modules. (I once managed to guess which module --- *.dll --
   loaded the plain MS Windows text, but I cannot remember the name off hand.)
   If your MS Word can load/save  Windows text files, you will only
   need a DOS-to-Windows converter program (look for one with keywords
   like Alternative, CodePage 866, CodePage 1251).

As far as I remember WP did not allow us to save the file as an MS Word
file, but other word processing software like Corel something, MS Word,
etc. understood WP files and was able to export in MS or other formats.
All this depends upon how much Russian software you have at your disposal.

If you have a regular internet access (i.e. ftp'able machine in both
directions), I could ftp-get/convert/ftp-put it.

Cheers,
Tsuji


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P.S.
W.P.5.1 used a proprietary encoding scheme for the Russian language,
which was neither DOS (whose encoding scheme is codepage 866) nor
Windows(codepage 1251).