Re: 8-bit Appleworks files

[a2mg@aol.comNomail (A2MG)]

>In the case of AppleWorks WP files, there is a large binary header, and
>each line is defined as a record with a binary header, followed by the
>text from the line with embedded control characters.  The text at least
>appears in the right order, but manually fixing the line breaks is a
>tedious process.

Agreed. CrossWorks on the PC does such a perfect job of converting the files,
it's silly to do it any other way - especially manually.

There is a freeware PC utility called BinText which will remove the header and
90% of the control characters, but it still doesn't format the paragraphs and
lines. It's better than nothing, but CrossWorks is preferred.




Beverly Cadieux 
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