Comp.sys.apple2 Wordperfect -- Leon

[Lee551]

David.

Following up from Comp.sys.apple2

I found a solution to the JRE problem I was having on the PI.

Here is the solution.

For Oracle Java 8 (ARMhf) there is a PPA that will install the latest version and keep it up to date. It does install the JDK, but that includes JRE (there is no JRE only install for ARM).

So I did that... Works

Downloaded and installed transformenator and was able to run it... or at least see the list of transform files.

Seeing I am working with WordPerfect for GS I am going to try WordPerfect for Mac and see what comes out the other side.

With a file to be converted name Test
The translator being WordPerfect Mac
and the output directory /home/pi

Would I execute in the Pi terminal be this?

java -jar transformenator.jar wordperfect_mac_rtf Test /home/pi

Leon

[RetroFloppySupport]

Hi, Leon -

The default behavior of transformenator is to work on a directory of files. You can still operate on a single file though - and send its output to a new directory if it doesn't already exist. Your invocation looks good:

java -jar transformenator.jar wordperfect_mac_rtf Test /home/pi

And that should create a new file /home/pi/Test.rtf

[Lee551]

Follow up question....

Does it matter what directory I am in when I execute java -jar transformenator.jar transform infile out_directory ?

[RetroFloppySupport]

It doesn't matter, assuming wherever it is that you are located, you are able to "see" the transformenator.jar file. You can start absolutely anywhere, and point the tool at your source and destination locations by fully specifying the locations of all three. So the notion of "current directory" applies in all cases... there's no magic specific to the tooling there, it obeys all the rules of the operating system in that regard.