WriteNow documents and MacLink Plus? (Hello, DataViz?)

On Feb 11, 3:56 pm, AES <sieg....RemoveThis@stanford.edu> wrote:
> Can versions 15 or 16 of MacLink Plus Deluxe read old WriteNow files on
> an Intel-processor MacBook running Tiger? -- or not?
>
> The list of translatable formats in the MacLink Plus documentation says
> they can translate WriteNow files, although read only.  My registered
> copy of MLPD 15 apparently can't -- or anyway, won't -- do so.  
My MLPD 16 won't read WriteNow 2.0 files. The website says it will
translate version 3 and 4, but lists 2 as "no longer supported:"
http://support.dataviz.com/support.srch?docid=14048
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In article
<b5edf826-4dc0-443f-9f21-3490cee02d5f.RemoveThis@u72g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
schmidtd <schmidtd.RemoveThis@my-deja.com> wrote:

> On Feb 11, 3:56 pm, AES <sieg....RemoveThis@stanford.edu> wrote:
> > Can versions 15 or 16 of MacLink Plus Deluxe read old WriteNow files on
> > an Intel-processor MacBook running Tiger? -- or not?
> >
> > The list of translatable formats in the MacLink Plus documentation says
> > they can translate WriteNow files, although read only.  My registered
> > copy of MLPD 15 apparently can't -- or anyway, won't -- do so.  
> My MLPD 16 won't read WriteNow 2.0 files. The website says it will
> translate version 3 and 4, but lists 2 as "no longer supported:"
> http://support.dataviz.com/support.srch?docid=14048

Yeah, that's too bad. When I dig out an old WN file from 1986 or 1987,
there doesn't seem to be any easy way to tell just what version created
it.

[And since my impression is that WN was a very stable product throughout
its regrettably limited lifespan, I wonder what it is that limits the
translation capability to versions 3 and 4.]
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In article <nobody-CD20C9.11133816022008 RemoveThis @comcast.dca.giganews.com>,
John Rethorst <nobody RemoveThis @nowhere.net> wrote:

> You could download WordPerfect for free from
> groups/yahoo.com/group/wordperfectmac. If you're on an Intel or Leopard OS,
> download the SheepShaver-WordPerfect install, which runs on those. Otherwise
> it runs in Classic. WordPerfect can read the WriteNow files and save them as
> RTF, or Word 6 format, which newer versions of Word can read. The free MetaMacro
> utility at the same site will automate that procedure.

Thanks! Just the kind of tip I was hoping to get (and I did do some
online searching first).
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On 2008-02-16 12:41:49 -0800, AES <siegman.DeleteThis@stanford.edu> said:

> In article <nobody-CD20C9.11133816022008.DeleteThis@comcast.dca.giganews.com>,
> John Rethorst <nobody.DeleteThis@nowhere.net> wrote:
>
>> You could download WordPerfect for free from
>> groups/yahoo.com/group/wordperfectmac.

The above should read: <http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordperfectmac/>

>> If you're on an Intel or Leopard OS,
>> download the SheepShaver-WordPerfect install, which runs on those. Otherwise
>> it runs in Classic. WordPerfect can read the WriteNow files and save them as
>> RTF, or Word 6 format, which newer versions of Word can read. The free
>> MetaMacro
>> utility at the same site will automate that procedure.
>
> Thanks! Just the kind of tip I was hoping to get (and I did do some
> online searching first).
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AES <siegman RemoveThis @stanford.edu> wrote:

> Thanks! Just the kind of tip I was hoping to get (and I did do some
> online searching first).

You know, you could have simply asked for advice on how to read WriteNow
documents in the first place.

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On 2008-02-16 15:37:56 -0800, Lewis <gkreme.RemoveThis@gmail.com> said:

> Gee, I really miss Word Perfect, it was my second favorite Word
> Processor ever (after Word 5.1e), but I can't imagine running it via
> SheepShaver.

I loved it in its first incarnations, using it on pre-Windows PC's and
my first Atari(s).

> Too bad there was never a fully carbon version of it that ran natively
> on OS X though.
>
> Course, I have graduated beyond word processors (or, more accurately,
> regressed, I suppose).

You regressed to using one? Text editors?
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On 2008-02-16 17:48:53 -0800, Lewis <gkreme.DeleteThis@gmail.com> said:

> In article <2008021615451016807-xxx@yyyzzz>, gtr <xxx.DeleteThis@yyy.zzz> wrote:
>
>> On 2008-02-16 15:37:56 -0800, Lewis <gkreme.DeleteThis@gmail.com> said:
>>
>>> Gee, I really miss Word Perfect, it was my second favorite Word
>>> Processor ever (after Word 5.1e), but I can't imagine running it via
>>> SheepShaver.
>>
>> I loved it in its first incarnations, using it on pre-Windows PC's and
>> my first Atari(s).
>
> Ah, no, I hated the windows version of WP. The Mac version was sublime.
>
>>> Too bad there was never a fully carbon version of it that ran natively
>>> on OS X though.
>>>
>>> Course, I have graduated beyond word processors (or, more accurately,
>>> regressed, I suppose).
>>
>> You regressed to using one? Text editors?
>
> LaTeX if I need formatted text. But as Tonya Engst said, "sometimes
> ASCII is the best use of bandwidth" (I think that's the line), so most
> of my typing is in Mail.app, MTNW, BBEdit, or Terminal.app.

Ah yes. Very true. I'd have to put 90% of my volumein such programs.
Pages when I need to make something purty with pictures and stuff. Hmm.
The reality is that I do most of my purty in iWeb or in another
web-thang before it... Sheesh, I barely use a wordprocessor either.
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On 2008-02-17 12:34:58 -0800, gtr <xxx RemoveThis @yyy.zzz> said:

>>>> Course, I have graduated beyond word processors (or, more accurately,
>>>> regressed, I suppose).
>>>
>>> You regressed to using one? Text editors?
>>
>> LaTeX if I need formatted text. But as Tonya Engst said, "sometimes
>> ASCII is the best use of bandwidth" (I think that's the line), so most
>> of my typing is in Mail.app, MTNW, BBEdit, or Terminal.app.
>
> Ah yes. Very true. I'd have to put 90% of my volume in such programs.
> Pages when I need to make something purty with pictures and stuff.
> Hmm. The reality is that I do most of my purty in iWeb or in another
> web-thang before it... Sheesh, I barely use a wordprocessor either.

Yikes, I'm not very self-aware. I just realized tat 90% of my typing I
do I do on DevonThink. Including the raw material of anything that
would go into iWeb.

I don't think I'd quite grasped that till now. Wow!
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On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:56:56 -0600, AES wrote
(in article <siegman-4FDCBE.12565611022008.RemoveThis@nntp.stanford.edu>):

> Can versions 15 or 16 of MacLink Plus Deluxe read old WriteNow files on
> an Intel-processor MacBook running Tiger? -- or not?
>
> The list of translatable formats in the MacLink Plus documentation says
> they can translate WriteNow files, although read only. My registered
> copy of MLPD 15 apparently can't -- or anyway, won't -- do so.
>
> How about the DataViz/MLPD website giving us a definitive answer to this
> repeated query . . . ?

DataViz for some reason has been pulling old formats out of their product -
last I tried, it would no longer translate old MacWrite files.

I have trouble figuring out why though ... I suppose moving the app forward
into MacOS X may have had something to do with it - though you'd think that
after having once written it, it would be a product asset worth preserving.
Let's face it, all their product does is translate from one format to
another, and being able to open old documents is the main reason I keep
buying it.

Complain to DataViz, and if you're still running Tiger or below you might be
able to get a copy of an older historical version - that's what they gave me
when I complained (though the support guy gave me a speech about how I was no
longer licensed for it due to the fact that I had upgraded about a zillion
times).

Somehow I doubt that the translation engine has changed that much - so it
really puzzles me why they keep dumping translators. Maybe it doesn't sell
many copies and they've cut back on maintenance staff.

-- Verne
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In article <47cc5091$0$5023$ba624c82@nntp06.dk.telia.net>,
Erik Richard Sørensen <NOSPAM DeleteThis @NOSPAM.dk> wrote:

>
> Appleworks 6.x still should be able to import older MacWrite files. -
> Don't use 'Open' but 'Import'...
>

Don't find an 'Import' command in AppleWorks 6 supplied with OS 10.4.11
on MacBook -- and searching AppleWorks Help for 'WriteNow' doesn't bring
up any hits.
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