Hard to believe, but before adopting Nisus Writer on my first Mac in April 2006, my word processor was (and sometimes still is) WordStar 4 -- ever since 1984. And I am a professional writer.
So... I have a lot of WordStar 4 files I would like to be able to work on in NW. Simple files I can output as plain TXT from WS4. Easy.
But I have several hundred large files that include formatting, which I would like to convert to RTF with all or most of the formatting intact.
Does anyone know of a utility that can do this? Convert WordStar 4 (NOT 5 or 7) to RTF, or even to DOC (yuk).
I do have an old DOS utility called xword that will convert WS4 files to several other 1980s orphan file formats -- such as xywrite.
Thanks for any suggestions.
BRL...
Need a FILE CONVERSION utility: WordStar 4 to RTF
Normally, for this type of conversion, you'd use MacLinkPlus, but the list of supported formats shows that the earliest version of WordStar it supports is WordStar *5*.
I would recommend asking your question in the WordStar Users Group; they might be able to give you a detailed answer.
I would recommend asking your question in the WordStar Users Group; they might be able to give you a detailed answer.
Last edited by mrennie on 2007-11-23 05:52:43, edited 1 time in total.
Thanks for the links.
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I do have WordStar 5. I did some experimenting, and found I can do some reformatting in WS5 that is not possible in 4, then re-save each file in ws5 format, which should then be ingestible by MacLink.
Thanks again.
BRL...
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I do have WordStar 5. I did some experimenting, and found I can do some reformatting in WS5 that is not possible in 4, then re-save each file in ws5 format, which should then be ingestible by MacLink.
Thanks again.
BRL...
Last edited by brl... on 2007-11-26 15:06:43, edited 1 time in total.
you may be interested in the following links
you may be interested in the following links
sorry for the late response...
http://www.wordstar.org/wordstar/pages/convert_faq.htm
http://www.macdisk.com/conven.php3
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/t1023494992
good luck
sorry for the late response...
http://www.wordstar.org/wordstar/pages/convert_faq.htm
http://www.macdisk.com/conven.php3
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/t1023494992
good luck