Re: Windows Write import


Subject: Re: Windows Write import
From: Sean Young (sean@mess.org)
Date: Tue Oct 23 2001 - 13:30:44 CDT


On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 02:21:17PM -0400, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> Quoting Sean Young <sean@mess.org>:
> > I'm working on Windows Write (.wri) import, and it's working quite well.
> > I
> > was wondering if anyone else is working on this. The code needs cleaning
> > up for before I release it, also it's command-line right now.
>
> Hi Sean,
>
> No one else is currently working on this, and .wri support would be really
> cool to have.
>
> I'm interested into turning this into an abiword importer, as opposed to just
> a command line tool. Write back to me and we'll do this real quickly!

Nice! :-) Another thing I haven't done yet is character translation; all
non-ascii characters are just removed now. :-( Have a look at what I've
done so far:

        http://www.msxnet.org/wri2abw.tar.gz

Any tips on how to improve it (and I'm sure there are dozens) are very
welcome.

Sean



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