Re: Odd text

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

The Apple II Mail Group wrote:

> Wayne, using a modified AppleWorks which allows control characters to load, I
> can load the file and then convert all the characters successfully. My question
> is...
>
> What are the long lines between sentences/subjects? Are they dividing lines or
> something? Should there be a carriage return before and after them? In other
> words, how should this look overall?

I don't see the lines in the version of AppleWrier I have it running on,
they seem

to be just spaces. However other software sees them very plainly. It apears
there's
a carriage returm at the end of them.


> Doing it my way, each file would take about 2-3 minutes to convert. (Load,
> convert to LC, convert control characters, save back as text.)
>
> Couldn't his be done with a BASIC program -  add 64 to every control character
> up to 26, make 27 to 31 a $20,  and add 32 to every other character (uppercase
> to lowercase)? It would seem to be faster - if this can be done in BASIC rather
> than AppleWorks.

My own basic programing skills are all history and were't much to begin with.
However I do know a couple of people that I believe still retain some
proficiency. I'll give them a call and see what they have to say.

    Wayne