[sword-devel] Working on a STEP Reader for SWORD

Don A. Elbourne Jr. sword-devel@crosswire.org
Sat, 3 Jun 2000 09:42:18 -0500


Trevor,

I was able to open it in WordPerfect 9. I took the liberty of converting it
to HTML for you and have placed it on my server at:
http://elbourne.simplenet.com/step/STEP1_1.htm



Don A. Elbourne Jr.
http://elbourne.simplenet.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sword-devel@crosswire.org
> [mailto:owner-sword-devel@crosswire.org]On Behalf Of Trevor Jenkins
> Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2000 6:58 AM
> To: sword-devel@crosswire.org
> Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Working on a STEP Reader for SWORD
>
>
> On Friday, 2 June, 2000 23:15:20, Paul Gear <paulgear@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>
> > Trevor Jenkins wrote:
> >>
> >> On Friday, 2 June, 2000 22:20:46, Paul Gear
> <paulgear@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > http://www.crosswire.org/bsisg/.  Start at the 'Info for Software
> >> > Developers' section.
> >>
> >> ... I could not open them. I tried Word 6 (Wiindows 3.1),
> >> Word 6 (Mac System 7) and Word 95 (WIndows 95). Nothing would
> open these
> >> .doc files. :-( In case things have changed I'm grabbing fresh copies;
> >
> > I just opened the specification (STEP 1.1.doc) OK in AbiWord 0.7.8 for
> > Linux.  Its M$ Word handling is not that great, so the file must be
> > pretty OK.
>
> I grabbed the files using my venerable Windows 3.1 machine. But the STEP
> 1.1.doc file still doesn't open. :-( The error is "out of memory". Also
> grabbed the .ZIPped version via my Mac and Word 6 sort of opened
> it (treaded
> it as text). Will try this compressed version on my 386 and see what
> happens.
>
>
> Regards, Trevor
>
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