Inter-Word Converter


I always forget that you can't stack up various immediate-only mode commands with colons in BBC BASIC - with LIST being one of them.

The original version was written in 2002 at a time when I decided I wanted to compose my e-mails using Inter-Word. Having done that, I had to convert them to plain text so that I could then paste the contents into the composition window of an e-mail on my PC, which I think at the time would almost certainly have been a webmail interface in a browser.

As you can imagine, that was a bit of a faff, as I was also using a serial link and the XFER program to transfer files from BBC to PC at the time, so the system didn't last very long, and IWConv remained forgotten for the best part of 20 years until I revived it in 2022 when I was looking for a BBC word-processor to write the captions on which would output plain text files. I discounted View, as I don't understand its navigation and editing functions, and Wordwise Plus as I needed 80-columns, and even Inter-Word because of its own special document format. I used Edit for a while but that wasn't satisfactory either as it doesn't word-wrap, and as I like to have the function key strip displayed on screen, which uses windowing, screen scrolling is extremely slow.

Eventually I went back to Inter-Word after remembering that I could solve the file format problem by using my Inter-Word converter, and here we are.



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