Re: has anyone converted Wang to word?

> > Yes I have tried to read it with Word Perfect back to version 4.2 and
> still
> > not possible to read it (special Word Perfect version 3 I think from
> Wang).
> > I don't have WordStar, where to find it or is there a others solution?
>
> You might try: http://www.acii.com/  This is an online document conversion
> service.  They appear to be able to convert Wang documents to other
formats.
> I have not used their services; therefore I am not aware of how well this
> might work.  They charge $10 per Mbyte plus $1 per file.
>
> Also, I have seen references that StarOffice from Sun MicroSystems (and
its
> OpenOffice twin) can apparently read and convert Wang and MultiMate files.
> MultiMate is the cloned version of the Wang word processor for the PC.
>
> Do you need to extract formatting and such, or do you just need to pull
out
> the text from these Wang word processing files? Or, do you just need to
> print them?

It would be nice if I had text files from it and very nice with format (only
tabs used I think).
I want to do it automaticle because they are about 2000 files.
PS: 2000 x 1$ = to much....
PSS: I have Linux , with installing StarOffice it's enough?

Ivo