Hi David,
 DS> Such a tool comes with WP5.2/Win.  The macro facility has a
 DS> built-in conversion capability.  You should find the macro facility
 DS> (MFWIN.EXE) in your WPC subdirectory.
Was not available, did some digging in the archives and found it burried 
under a heap of dust. Got it installed and tried it out. Simple macros, the 
easy short cuts for the repeatative use of long words, are easily converted. 
The more difficult ones: add an equation box, prevent it form being shifted 
at the page break, number it etc., well... as you already predicted: useless.
 DS> Run it from the RUN command in File Manager or Program Manager
NT has a text box, which allows it to run. Unfortunately the program does not 
accept a filename as an argument:
for %e in (*.wpm) do mfwin %e
i have to struggle through several dialogue boxes. Retyping the macro's will 
be the most time economic solution, as you already suggested.
 DS> I know that years ago some people were talking about writing better
 DS> conversion programs, but I don't know that anyone ever did.
 DS> It is not an easy problem to solve.
I see why, the resulting macro is quite different, its rather a text (*.wcm) 
than a bunch of bytes (*.wpm).
73 es cuagn,
 Henk
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