Charles Curley
2005-Mar-19 15:17 UTC
[Wine]Wine success: HABit Wordstar Converter (version 3)
I had need of a bit of computer archeology (oddly enough, for a couple of archaeologists, but that's another story). I used Henry Bartlett' HABit Wordstar Converter (version 3) (http://www.hotkey.net.au/~hambar/habit/wsconvrm.htm) to convert some Wordstar for Mess-DOS files to text and HTML. It worked just fine under wine (http://www.winehq.org). wine-20041201-1fc3winehq on Fedora Core 3 Linux. Thanks to both the wine contributors and Mr. Bartlett. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20050319/2195e1e3/attachment.pgp
Fantastic! NOW, the next step is to document it on http://appdb.winehq.org - get your entry recorded there to benefit others now and in the future. :) Hiji --- Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote:> I had need of a bit of computer archeology (oddly > enough, for a couple > of archaeologists, but that's another story). I used > Henry Bartlett' > HABit Wordstar Converter (version 3) >(http://www.hotkey.net.au/~hambar/habit/wsconvrm.htm)> to convert some > Wordstar for Mess-DOS files to text and HTML. It > worked just fine > under wine (http://www.winehq.org). > wine-20041201-1fc3winehq on Fedora > Core 3 Linux. > > Thanks to both the wine contributors and Mr. > Bartlett. > > -- > > Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon > Campaign > Looking for fine software \ / Respect for > open standards > and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF > in email > http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word > docs in email > > Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C > FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB >__________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
On Saturday 19 March 2005 01:17 pm, Charles Curley wrote:> I had need of a bit of computer archeology (oddly enough, for a > couple of archaeologists, but that's another story). I used Henry > Bartlett' HABit Wordstar Converter (version 3) > (http://www.hotkey.net.au/~hambar/habit/wsconvrm.htm) to convert > some Wordstar for Mess-DOS files to text and HTML. It worked just > fine under wine (http://www.winehq.org). wine-20041201-1fc3winehq > on Fedora Core 3 Linux.In case there are WordStar users on this list, you should know that all DOS versions of WordStar work perfectly using Dosemu on Linux systems. And, Rein Klazes produced patches so that WordStar for Windows works under Wine. WordStar (all versions after WordStar 4) included filters for converting to ASCII as well as a wide variety of other formats. In fact WordStar DOS in nondocument mode is an ASCII text editor. However, if all you have are WordStar DOS files and no copy of WordStar, then using this converter would be good. But if you still have your copy of WordStar, you can just go ahead and use it on a Linux system. deedee -- Registered Linux User #327485 WordStar Users Group Community: http://wordstar2.com/WordStar_Users WordStar & Linux: http://wordstar2.com Mailing Lists: http://wordstar2.com/mailman/listinfo
--- Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote:> On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 02:34:26PM -0800, Hiji > wrote: > > Fantastic! NOW, the next step is to document it > on > > http://appdb.winehq.org - get your entry recorded > > there to benefit others now and in the future. :) > > Not if I have to create an account, log in, etc. and > all that rot. I'm > allergic to it. Feel free to make an entry yourself.Then don't make an entry. :) Your success story will then likely fade away with time... Hiji __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/