Re: Converting OfficeVision docs to Word?

["Steven Easton Mail" <seaston@xxxxxxxxx>]

The system 38 was just office, not office vision.  It stored documents in
source files.  It was an enhanced SEU.  Qtxt was its name.  You can move
them to the AS400 and use SEU to maintain them.  Strip out the control
codes and transfer them to the PC like any other source file.  I believe
you can still get QTXT on the AS400.  I never liked office vision, but I
did like Office, because it was just like SEU.  Users in other departments
did not like office.  We went from office to Word Perfect and then to word.
 We purchased Office vision for the mail function, but that has been
replaced with MS mail (wfwg &/or Win95).

Steven Easton
seaston@ionet.net
http://www.ionet.net/virtial/dpma/

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> From: Francis Lapeyre <flapeyre@COMMUNIQUE.NET>
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Converting OfficeVision docs to Word?
> Date: Wednesday, April 23, 1997 6:28 PM
> 
> Kristy Astry wrote:
> > 
> > Greetings, midrangers...I'm new to the list, so please forgive my
> > question if it's recently been answered.
> > 
> > My company has some very old documentation written in OfficeVision
c.1989
> > on a now-defunct S/38. How easy is it to convert these docs to
Microsoft
> > Word 6.0/7.0 on my PC? Is it possible? Have any of you had to do so? If
> > not, do you know anyone who has?
> > 
> > Lots of questions from a newbie, I know, but I'm not having any luck
> > exploring the Internet looking for answers to these questions. Pls
> > respond privately if you don't think the answers would interest the
list.
> > Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > PS if you got this twice pls disregard.
> > 
> > Kristy Astry
> > Documentation Specialist
> > Columbine JDS
> > kastry@cjds.com
> 
> Krity:
> 
> All you need to do is open the file with Word. If you have access to
> shared folders, no problem. I know that 6.0 will automatically convert
> them, and then you can save them on you PC/LAN in Word format. The fonts
> may not translate, though, you may have to go through your Word
> documents and check the formatting. 
> 
> Good luck, welcome to the list!
> -- 
> Francis Lapeyre                    flapeyre@communique.net
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> "The probability of life originating from accident is 
> comparable to the probability of the Unabridged Dictionary
> resulting from an explosion in a printing factory." 
> 
> Prof. Edwin Conklin

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