I have a large number of old DECwrite, VAX Document.
Anyone know of how I can get them convert to Word (PC Windows 7)?
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with DecWrite , i can modified txt but, the probleme is how i can modified image inserted in the documents. thank you very much. – tomas terre Jun 28 '17 at 17:25
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There was a product called ```CDA Converter Library for OpenVMS```, which could convert DECwrite files, that is DDIF Documents, Graphics, etc. to a couple of output formats, including RTF and early MS Word versions. The SPD, http://h30266.www3.hpe.com/PDFs/CDAConverterLibraryV22.pdf, from 1993 is still online. Whether you can get that (and have a VMS system to run them) and whether the old output formats will help you is another question. The format of DECwrite files may be described somewhere, but I doubt that there are other tools to read/export them. – user2116290 Jun 30 '17 at 10:42
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This is a perl script that is purported to convert DECWRITE to HTML. http://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/www/tools/translators/decw2html/ – user3344003 Jul 06 '17 at 17:52
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From the perl script _...it does *NOT* process DECwrite .doc (DDIF) files. First generate an SGML file ..._. That converter is part of the converter library. As I found out today, for OpenVMS/VAX there is a CDACVTLIB022 on the freeware CD (version 6). The freeware CD can be found on the net. – user2116290 Jul 07 '17 at 07:19