Re: A probably dumb question:

[Tony Cianfaglione <ab616@chebucto.ns.ca>]

Use Shadow Write.

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On 3 Jan 2002, Michael J. Mahon wrote:

> Bart observed:
> 
> >I want something as easy as in PC land "humm,  excel wont open this puppy, 
> >let's change the extension to "doc" and see what happens!" or a quickie thing
> >
> >that asks "Now human, I am smart, but I am not THAT smart!  Where exactly did
> >
> >you leave that copy of Appleworks?" Is there anything like that in the Apple 
> >II world?
> 
> I'm sure there's something better, but my approach would be to look at the
> first block or so of the file in a text or hex editor, and "pattern recognize"
> the file type.
> 
> This is also what I do on the PC.  I just open the file--ANY file--in WordPad
> (since most are too big for NotePad) and look at the first few characters.
> It's relatively easy to see UUENCODEd, .B64, .GIF, .JPG, .DOC, etc.
> files from their first line or two.  There's even a PC utility that automates
> this type recognition, called WhatFormat.
> 
> -michael
> 
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