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From: Tom Harrington on 24 Feb 2010 12:48
In article <C7AA900D.29DD4%kearnser(a)gmail.com>,
Ed Kearns <kearnser(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> in article 1jefofb.19gsn6j18sr2ktN%jamiekg(a)wizardling.geek.nz, Jamie Kahn
> Genet at jamiekg(a)wizardling.geek.nz wrote on 2/23/10 11:53 PM:
>
> > Ed Kearns <kearnser(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I have some old word files (archiving old textual material). They open fine
> >> in Word 2008 for the Mac. However, I'm trying to find a way that folks who
> >> have both Macs and Windows in our church can search across files to find
> >> searchstrings. BBEdit Lite works well for this. But the software my Windows
> >> friends would like to use this (NoteTab Lite) only works with .txt or .rtf
> >> files. I tried to convert them with various online DOC to TXT converters,
> >> and they tell me they're not DOCs. A get-info says they're Word 1.x-5.x. I
> >> can't get any information on this, much less do I know how to convert them
> >> to a TXT file.
> >>
> >> Any Suggestions?
> >>
> >> Ed
> >
> > Mini vMac <http://minivmac.sourceforge.net/>, the right version of Word
> > (*cough* search online *cough*) and you'll be able to open them and copy
> > the text into, say, an early version of BBedit Lite's document and save.
> > Or use Word's export fuction.
> But does anyone know what Word 1.x-5.x means?

It means Microsoft Word, version 1.0 through 5.something (maybe 5.5? I
forget what the last 5.x version was).

Word 2008 is Applescript-able, so you should be able to automate
converting the files into any other format that Word supports.

--
Tom "Tom" Harrington
Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002
http://www.atomicbird.com/
From: Jolly Roger on 24 Feb 2010 13:15
In article <C7AA9062.29F01%kearnser(a)gmail.com>,
Ed Kearns <kearnser(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> in article 4b851bb9$0$7836$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com, Warren Oates at
> warren.oates(a)gmail.com wrote on 2/24/10 5:29 AM:
>
> > In article <C7AA0553.29913%kearnser(a)gmail.com>,
> > Ed Kearns <kearnser(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I have some old word files (archiving old textual material). They open fine
> >> in Word 2008 for the Mac. However, I'm trying to find a way that folks who
> >> have both Macs and Windows in our church can search across files to find
> >> searchstrings. BBEdit Lite works well for this. But the software my Windows
> >> friends would like to use this (NoteTab Lite) only works with .txt or .rtf
> >> files. I tried to convert them with various online DOC to TXT converters,
> >> and they tell me they're not DOCs. A get-info says they're Word 1.x-5.x. I
> >> can't get any information on this, much less do I know how to convert them
> >> to a TXT file.
> >
> > If you can open them in Word 2008, can you not _Save As_ them again as
> > "plain text"? Or do I misunderstand?
>
> It's just that I have a number, and didn't want to do them one at a time.
> Ed

Sounds like a perfect job for AppleScript or Automator...

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From: D Finnigan on 24 Feb 2010 13:35
Tom Harrington wrote:
> through 5.something (maybe 5.5? I
> forget what the last 5.x version was).

5.1, IIRC.
From: Fred Moore on 24 Feb 2010 17:51
In article <dog_cow-1267036518(a)macgui.com>,
dog_cow(a)macgui.com (D Finnigan) wrote:

> Tom Harrington wrote:
> > through 5.something (maybe 5.5? I
> > forget what the last 5.x version was).
>
> 5.1, IIRC.

5.1a, actually, though there was rumor of v5.1g floating around Redmond
HQ. That was never released to the public. I can still run v5.1a in
Classic on my trusty TiBook550. For real word processing today, I've
replaced it with NeoOffice.

MacLink Plus will batch convert these files, and many more, easily, but
it's $80. Automating it yourself will take some time. Your choice.

Now, back to my taxes. :\
From: Warren Oates on 24 Feb 2010 19:11
In article <C7AA900D.29DD4%kearnser(a)gmail.com>,
Ed Kearns <kearnser(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> But does anyone know what Word 1.x-5.x means?

Yes.
--
Very old woody beets will never cook tender.
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