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Reading WriteNow files in Mac OS X
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eytan (apparently)
- 09:14am Feb 21, 2007 PSTvia emailFolks,
this might be a RTFM point. If so please forgive an OS X newbie.
Here is my pb:
I have a great number of files created under WriteNow in OS9.2.2. I
would like to be able to read them under say TextEdit in OS X Tiger8. I
*know* I could open the WN files, save each one of them as an .rtf file
and then read them with TextEdit. However given the number of files to
be processed this would be a *real PITA*. Of course I could write an
AppleScript to do the job, but I am utterly unable to do this -- and
learning OS9 AppleScript would be a waste of time anyway.
My setup:
1. G4/450 AGP (which can be started up in OS 9.2.2), OS 9.2.2, 30GB HD,
896MB RAM
2. iMac G5 Core 2 Dual, OS X Tiger8, 500GB HD, 3GB RAM
Thank you for any help. Please send me a copy to my personal address
eithn
free.fr, I read the Digest with a lot of delay.
Cheers
Randy B. Singer (apparently)
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Feb 23, 2007 12:26 pm
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Re: Reading WriteNow files in Mac OS X
On Feb 21, 2007, at 8:14 AM, Michel Eytan wrote:
> I have a great number of files created under WriteNow in OS9.2.2. I
> would like to be able to read them under say TextEdit in OS X Tiger8.
DataViz's MacLink Plus lists WriteNow as a file format that it can
read and translate into any number of other common file formats:
http://www.dataviz.com/products/maclinkplus/mlp_xlators.html
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Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (3rd, 4th, and 5th editions)
Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
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Nigel Stanger (apparently)
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Feb 23, 2007 12:26 pm
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Re: Reading WriteNow files in Mac OS X
On 22/2/2007 5:14 AM, "Michel Eytan" <eithn free.fr> spake thus:
> learning OS9 AppleScript would be a waste of time anyway.
Not really; the fundamentals are basically identical. The details of the
applications are different, but you always got that anyway. The biggest
difference would be in what's available built in.
Given the relative obscurity of WriteNow these days, I would say a batch
conversion into RTF via AppleScript is probably your best solution, assuming
WriteNow actually had AppleScript support, of course. My educated but
totally unsupported guess is that it would probably only be half a dozen
lines of code at most (loop through all dropped documents, open, save as
RTF).
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Nigel Stanger, Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND.
http://xri.net/=nigel.stanger
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doughogg
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Feb 23, 2007 12:30 pm
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John C. Welch (apparently)
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Feb 23, 2007 9:54 pm
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Re: Reading WriteNow files in Mac OS X
On 2/23/07 13:26, "Nigel Stanger" <nstanger infoscience.otago.ac.nz> wrote:
> Given the relative obscurity of WriteNow these days, I would say a batch
> conversion into RTF via AppleScript is probably your best solution, assuming
> WriteNow actually had AppleScript support, of course. My educated but
> totally unsupported guess is that it would probably only be half a dozen
> lines of code at most (loop through all dropped documents, open, save as
> RTF).
MacLink Plus Deluxe supports WriteNow 3 & 4 too. I don't use MLP as much as
I used to, but when you need <obscure file format> translated, it tends to
pay for itself quite nicely
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John C. Welch Writer/Analyst
Bynkii.com Mac and other opinions
jwelch bynkii.com
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