WordProcessortoAmiga
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Donna,
If by DOS you mean MSDOS and the disks are not high density then the
answer is yes. If you installed Cross Dos or MessyDos (sp?) you could pop
the MSDOS disk from your WP into the Amiga and directly import the text
into PgS.
-Paul-
Paul, thanks for the quick reply. I mean DOS (that's all the info' says – I
assume it's MSDOS since it's IBM compat.). What is Cross Dos or MessyDos? I
assume you mean with them I could import the text formatted? Am I right?
Donna
Donna, * If it is IBM compatible then your all set, it is probably MSDOS.
* Cross Dos and MessyDos (commercial and shareware) are both sets of
software that allow you to read and write to IBM formated disks from amiga
programs just as if it were an amigados disk.
I just finished some curriculum work. All of the text was generated in
an IBM compatible lap top as we worked. It was saved on the IBM disk as an
ASCII file. I used messydos (It can be found here on CIS) to read the file
into pagestream for final formating and printing.
* No, when you save the file from the WP as an ASCII file you loose the
formating information. That is what an ASCII file is – just text, nothing
else. When I'm writing in a wp program, and I know the text is destined to
be printed from PgS I don't bother to do any formating while I type. All I
do is use an extra carrage return between paragraphs and do all my
formating within PageStream.
-Paul-
Thanks Paul, you've been, as usual extremely helpful.