Module to read AmiPro files

swampyankee has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

In the distant pass (early 1990's), I wrote a propeller analysis program based on the wing analysis program FLO22 (this was my MS capstone project). Alas, I saved everything in AmiPro, a program which is a) Windows only (and I no longer use Windows) and b) and no longer available.

What I'm looking for is a filter that can, at a minimum, strip off the formatting except for end of paragraph makers. It would be nice to retain the formatting, but I'm mostly concerned with getting my source code back.

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Floating point issues? Please read this before posting. — emc

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Re: Module to read AmiPro files by harangzsolt33 (Deacon) on Aug 29, 2024 at 02:01 UTC
I've never used AmiPro, but I could give it a try, or you could try it using wine maybe? Here's the link: https://winworldpc.com/product/amipro/3x Edit: Actually, this looks like just a demo. Sorry. But I have Lotus WordPro in a zip package, which is a later version of AmiPro, so maybe the WordPro can read AmiPro documents? Maybe? You could try. Here is the link for that: http://www.wzsn.net/xp/lwp.zip (Download size: 100 MB) This zip file contains the program called Lotus WordPro 9.7. To run, unzip the zip file's contents and then type: wine wordpro.exe and hope for the best...! :) Edit: This program (Lotus WordPro 9.7) has an Import/Export feature, and it claims to be able to import AmiPro files. However, I downloaded a couple of sample AmiPro files, and it couldn't open them. So, I did something else. I downloaded https://lotusamipro.com/files/word2ami.zip and this converter is an addon for Microsoft Word. Using this addon, I was able to open the AmiPro SAM documents with Word without a problem!	[reply]
Re^2: Module to read AmiPro files by swampyankee (Parson) on Nov 29, 2024 at 19:05 UTC
Thanks! I'll give that a try. Information about American English usage here. Floating point issues? Please read this before posting. — emc	[reply]
Re: Module to read AmiPro files by karlgoethebier (Abbot) on Nov 30, 2024 at 12:21 UTC
OK, no module but this could possibly work with Calligra , a successor of KOffice. ŤThe Crux of the Biscuit is the Apostropheť	[reply]
Re: Module to read AmiPro files by LanX (Saint) on Nov 29, 2024 at 23:53 UTC
What did you try so far? What about https://askubuntu.com/questions/107364/is-there-any-office-suite-or-application-that-can-read-amipro-sam-files#107399 ChatGPT gave some further tips but I'm no FilterGPT (i.e. too ignorant to separate truth from hallucination and too responsible to spread fake news). Update ChatGPT was useless: confused Ami Pro with Word Perfect. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) see Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]

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