Re: Word Perfect File to DOS Plain Text File...How?

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>]

From: "Anachie Shakespear" <omath -at- lycos -dot- com>
>
> My client has a bunch of old Word Perfect files that are corrupted (so no save
as feature), but we need the text contained within those files.
> Somewhere in the back of my brain, I remember that there is a way to pipe a
single WP file to a plain dos file, and there is a way to pipe a bunch of WP
files to bunches of plain dos files. How does one do this?


This will probably work, if you just want to rename the files and deal with the
contents later:

http://www.publicspace.net/windows/BetterFileRename/

I use the free version, and it's great.

Bonnie Granat
http://www.granatedit.com



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