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Your

Brother

Word

Processor

can

only

read

720K

or

1.44M

DOS

format-

ted

diskettes.

Be

sure

the

ASCII

file

created

on

your

personal

computer

is

saved

on

this

type

of

diskette.

•

When

you

save

an

ASCII

file

on

diskette

using

your

personal

computer,

be

sure

to

save

the

file

in

the

root

directory

of

the

diskette.

Your

Brother

word

processor

cannot

access

sub

-directories

of

a

diskette.

•

Also,

be

sure

to

add

the

extension

".TXT"

to

the

file

name

of

any

ASCII

file

created

on

your

personal

computer

so

that

your

Brother

word

pro-

cessor

can

identify

the

file

as

an

ASCII

file.

1.

Insert

the

diskette

with

the

file

to

be

converted

in

the

drive.

2.

With

the

WP

INDEX

displayed,

press

to

display

the

menu.

3.

Use

and

to

select

CONVERT,

and

press

or

M

to

display

the

sub

-menu.

4.

Use

CO

and

in

to

select

WP

TEXT.WPT->ASCI

I

.TXT

or

ASCII

.TXT->WP

1

EXT.WPT

and

press

IR

tj.

The

CONVERT

INDEX

screen

will

show

the

list

of

source

files

(WP

files

if

you

selected

WP

TEXT.

WPT->ASCI

I

.TXT,

or

ASCII

files

if

you

selected

ASCII

.TXT->WP

TEXT.WPT)

and

this

message

will

appear:

Select

a

file

to

convert

and

press

RETURN.

Press

CANCEL

to

exit.

5.

Move

the

cursor

to

the

file

to

be

converted

and

press

.

You

can

also

press

ic.ANCEL

to

exit.

6.

When

converting

a

WP

file

into

an

ASCII

file,

you

have

two

options:

TEXT

ONLY

and

TEXT

WITH

LAYOUT.

Use

DI

and

n

to

select

the

option

and

press

The

message

shown

below

will

appear.

This

message

appears

immediately

after

step

(5)

when

converting

an

ASCII

file

into

a

WP

text

file.

TEXT

ONLY

removes

any

formatting

code

from

the

file.

When

you

import

such

a

file

into

a

personal

computer

word

processing

program,

the

text

will

automatically

be

adapted

to

the

format

of

the

PC

word

processing

program.

TEXT

WITH

LAYOUT

preserves

the

format

of

the

file.

A

carriage

return

will

be

added

at

the

end

of

each

screen

line.

However,

if

the

margins

of

your

original

file

are

unusually

wide,

additional

carriage

returns

will

be

placed

into

the

file

and

re-

formatting

will

be

necessary.

Insert

destination

disk

and

press

RETURN.

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