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From: mile23@ix.netcom.com
Subject: AtariWriter Convert
An AtariWriter conversion utility in HyperCard. (snazzy title, no?)
This is a Macintosh HyperCard stack I wrote a while back to convert
AtariWriter documents into Rich Text Format (RTF) files which could be
imported into MS Word.
You'll need:
- A Macintosh (duh
work.
- HyperCard or HyperCard Player. I wrote this thing under HC2.1,
but I just ran it under HCPlayer 2.3 and everything seems to be
working fine.
How it works:
Run it by double clicking on it or opening it into HyperCard.
Click on the big 'Convert A File...' button. You'll see the standard
file selector box. Pick an atariwriter file.
Wait. Wait some more. Wait even longer. Wait an eternity.
The atariwriter file will be converted into a mishmash of {}s and
/pards in the scrollable field. Select the text in the field,
copy or cut it, and then paste it into a text/word processor.
Save this text. This step is necessary because the utility doesn't
output a file of its own. I'm a lazy programmer. :-)
Load the saved RTF file into your word processor of choice. You might
need to tell the word processor that the file is a Rich Text Format
document.
If you have a set of chained atariwriter files, you will need to
convert them one at a time. I made another version of this utility,
one that handles chained files, but alas it is nowhere to be found.
Also, due to the way RTF works, you can't just paste the RTF code
from the different chained files into one big text file, and then
load that into a word processor. You'll have to treat each one
seperately.