Hi Zak,

Get the cvt utility.

I've been converting 100's of documents per day for years on an SCO machine running WP 5.1. If I recall correctly it worked on a linux system using WP 8 as well. The cvt utility provided by WP is very reliable.

I use it as follows: 
    $WP5="/u/wp/shbin/cvt51";
    $WP8="/u/wp8/shbin10/cvt";
    $CVT= defined(-e '/u/wp/shbin/cvt51') ? $WP5 : $WP8;
   system ("$CVT $TMP1 -o $TMP2 asci >/dev/nul </dev/null");

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I'm not sure where you can get WP5/8. I think I once found one on E-bay.

Bob drb@chicopmr.org

In reply to Re: (Sorta OT) - Historic Wordperfect Conversion by Anonymous Monk
in thread (Sorta OT) - Historic Wordperfect Conversion by zakzebrowski

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