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Old 05-13-2010, 07:11 AM   #5
Mike L
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Captcrouton,

I like the way you refer to it as "an ancient Word Processor known as Wordstar". Time was when "word processor" and "WordStar" were virtually synonyms. The mighty have indeed fallen.

But, back to your question ...

I was going to point out that WordStar files contain all the text of your document, interspersed with control characters. Any half-way decent programmer should be able to write a simple program to strip out the control characters, leaving just the text (but minus any formatting, such as bold and underscores).

But Harry T has given you a much better solution.
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