This is only partly on/off topic, but I need help with a messy little problem.
I have been asked to evaluate a book project with the possibility that I will be producing it for publication. The author sent me a WordPerfect file (.wpd suffix) that my Microsoft stuff won't read. Like Word, it's a binary file that has the text embedded in it. Words are separated by a single character that displays in vim as a (blue) couple of characters: ( ~@ ) and there are other characters showing up as ( ^U, ^^, ^@, ) etc. I know how to do regular expression search and replace for control characters like ^U, but this ~@ stuff is something I don't know how to specify in a search string. Any clues? Or an easy way to convert this to plain text without buying a bunch of software? I'm a vim/groff bigot and don't like canned "authoring" software-- especially if I have to pay for it. :-) Thanks, Clarke
