[Virtualacorn-list] RiscOS-MS file conversion

[Dave Symes]

In article <dbcf894556.jim at abbeypress.net>,
   Jim Nagel <vatory at abbeypress.co.uk> wrote:
> Bob Ardler wrote on May22:
> > On this (home) HardDisc4 there are >30k maths sheets I've composed on
> > RiscOS for my school, mostly as Drawfiles or on TechWriter. Boss now
> > wants them on the school network -- which accommodates only Microsoft
> > and Apple machines. ... [snip steps] ... Are there better ways? The
> > prospect of the above plod repeated 30k times is daunting. Is there an
> > MS (or Apple) app closer to Draw...?

> Yes.  Oak Draw (free download from Dial Solutions):
>      http://www.dialsolutions.com/downloads/index.html (5 meg)
> Also there is (or was) Aspex Draw (harder to find but still extant, 
> not sure if it's free or sold), which became Silhouette Studio, which 
> still loads Acorn drawfiles despite not being documented.  Basic 
> version is free (183 megabytes!)

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Worth noting, Oak Draw will only install on a 32bit Win machine not on a
64bit machine.

Dave

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Dave Triffid