Re: .txt to .doc

Hoff Hoffman wrote:
himansu114@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

We are running processes on the alpha and the final reports are ftp'd
to a client's site. The client doesn;'t want to have to convert the .txt
files into .doc format.
Microsoft Windows can open and process text files just fine. Reading into the question somewhat, the root problem is probably that the text files are not using the stream or stream LF formats. Microsoft Wordpad tends to be more somewhat flexible than Notepad, but both can read OpenVMS text files that were created with the appropriate attributes.
CONVERT/FDL can be used, or -- if there is access into the tool -- the text-format file can generally be easily created with the appropriate record attributes.

If the FTP transfer is marked as ASCII instead of Binary, the FTP programs on both side take care of the formats. I just checked with Microsoft Word, Notepad, and Write (also known as Wordpad).

So just FTP the file as text, and change the name to end in .DOC and probably everything will be happy with the result.

Converting a plain text file to an actual Microsoft .doc file really does at best just make the resulting file bigger. And in some cases the automatic tools will destroy the original formatting making the file harder to read.

A plain text file will typically not contain any macro viruses either.

-John
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