Re: A technical interuption

Fri, 7 Jun 1996 10:51:57 -0400 (EDT)
A. Gunder Frank (agfrank@chass.utoronto.ca)

Wel, others of us might be interested too!

On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Bruce R. McFarling wrote:

> I'm sorry to put this onto the list, but I seem to
> have deleted the relevant address for sending this by
> direct e-mail. Some time back, someone mentioned on WSN
> the problem of converting a word processor document to
> an ASCII text format without loosing text and formatting.
> I replied (offlist) that I thought I had seen a solution
> for this for WordPerfect in the form of a printer driver
> that 'prints' an ASCII file with _underline_ and *boldface*
> in the normal e-mail style, some efforts to suggest
> characters not in the 7-bit ASCII character set, and
> retention of footnote / endnote text.
> I have finally run across this little tool, but
> now I have lost the address of my correspondent, so if
> he would contact me I can forward it to him. Sorry for
> the interuption.
>
> Virtually,
>
> Bruce R. McFarling, Newcastle, NSW
> ecbm@cc.newcastle.edu.au
>