Path: news.uh.edu!barrett From: richard.smith@durham.ac.uk (Richard Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.reviews Subject: MINI-REVIEW: MessySID Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.applications Date: 18 Oct 1994 17:09:47 GMT Organization: The Amiga Online Review Column - ed. Daniel Barrett Lines: 32 Sender: amiga-reviews@math.uh.edu (comp.sys.amiga.reviews moderator) Distribution: world Message-ID: <380vgr$jme@masala.cc.uh.edu> Reply-To: richard.smith@durham.ac.uk (Richard Smith) NNTP-Posting-Host: karazm.math.uh.edu Keywords: file translation, IBM PC, freeware Originator: barrett@karazm.math.uh.edu For this week's effort, I shall be giving a few brief thoughts on the MESSYSID11 PD package, which is available from all PD libraries (i.e., 17Bit, UBS, etc.). This package is generally very good, but the best feature has to be the PC-to-Amiga (or vice versa) file translation. This enables a lowly A500 with a free package (e.g., Interword-free on the cover of CU Amiga) to be used as a workhorse for producing some really professional output on a high end PC. This may suit some students, like me, who have an Amiga and cannot afford to buy a PC. There are difficulties, however, because some packages have difficulty in reading the output. The only safe route I have found is using Interword on the Amiga and saving the file in ASCII; then, the transfer to PC can then be read by WordPerfect. It cannot, however, be read by Word for Windows. This presents some difficulties as most networks only use Word. The only way around this is to use Translation software on some of the latest editions of WordPerfect - yet not all networks have these; e.g., Durham. Cheers! - Richard Smith richard.smith@durham.ac.uk --- Daniel Barrett, Moderator, comp.sys.amiga.reviews Send reviews to: amiga-reviews-submissions@math.uh.edu Request information: amiga-reviews-requests@math.uh.edu Moderator mail: amiga-reviews@math.uh.edu Anonymous ftp site: math.uh.edu, in /pub/Amiga/comp.sys.amiga.reviews