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Re: Word Perfect File to DOS Plain Text File...How?
Subject:Re: Word Perfect File to DOS Plain Text File...How? From:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 24 Nov 2003 08:28:55 -0800
If you're going to just try and copy text out of the files, you may just be
able to open the files as plain text in Word or Notepad by selecting
"all files" from the File Type dropdown. But if renaming them in a
batch is essential:
Open a DOS command window (select "Run" from the Windows Start
menu, type "cmd" into the field and click OK)
Navigate to the directory where the files are located (if you don't know
how to CD in DOS, just put the files temporarily in your "Documents
and Settings" folder, which is where the DOS window will default to
when it opens). Make sure they are the only files in that directory
with the extension you want to change
Assuming your files are Wordperfect .doc, type:
REN *.doc *.txt
This will rename all the .doc files in the directory to .txt with the same
names they have now.
Gene Kim-Eng
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Subject: Word Perfect File to DOS Plain Text File...How?
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> All:
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> 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?
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