OT - FpWord

[Harold Faulkner]

On 3/26/2013 11:56 AM, Joe Chasan wrote:
> A LONG time ago, John Esak had a program he sold called FpWord - a nice
> utility that pre-dates memo fields but added that functionality.  He
> compiled it for SCO only.
>
> I ran across one of his customers today who has this program and is
> migrating to Linux.  I need to get all his data out of FpWord and into
> a memo field.
>
> Are there any users of this program out there?
>
> I contacted John and he thinks he MAY have written an export or something
> similar either for a single customer or left in the last compile of the
> program.  Either way, he doesn't have it now but suggested I try the fp
> list.
>
> My customer has the following binaries: fpwfind, fpwfree, fpwlic, fpwopen
> and fpwshow.  Based on the usage info on each, fpwshow might have been
> able to do something if I could redirect it to a file, but my copy
> of it just core-dumps so I can't get anywhere.
>
> Looking for someone else who may have bought this program and has
> either a working 'fpwshow' binary or some other export utility.
>
> --
> -Joe Chasan-                           Magnatech Business Systems, Inc.
> joe - at - magnatechonline -dot- com   Hicksville, NY - USA
> http://www.MagnatechOnline.com         Tel.(516) 931-4444/Fax.(516) 931-1264
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>

Hi,

I remember that in the 80's John acquired from tandy the right to sell, 
and probably modify Radio Shack's word processor called Scripsit.  
Scripsit probably wouldn't work on a DOS computer, but maybe John 
modified Scripsit so it would work on DOS computers.

Harold