Re: Odd text

[eeastman@apple2.com]

Actually if you want to save an applewriter file as ASCII text, you
simply print it to a file.  I remember doing this when I used
AppleWriter as a BASIC editor on the IIe.  I do not remember the
procedure, but it was in the help somewhere.  (openApple?)  If i find
it, I'll e-mail the instructions to you.  Right now I do nto have AW
handy.

Thankx,
Ed

Wayne Stewart wrote:
> 
> David Empson wrote:
> 
> >
> > It might be an AppleWriter 1.0 file.  This ran on the ][/][+ so it
> > didn't support lower case directly.  It displayed upper case characters
> > as inverse uppercase on the screen, and lower case as normal uppercase.
> >
> > I don't know how the data was actually stored in the files, but the
> > files were saved as type 'B' (binary) instead of 'T' (text).  (There may
> > have been a later version which saved them in text-type files.)
> >
> > The DOS 3.3 version of AppleWriter IIe is able to read files saved with
> > AppleWriter 1, but the ProDOS version doesn't have this feature.
> 
> Thanks David, I just discovered last night that it is indeed AppleWriter.
> I think I likely have every version on hand but I've hever run the
> program befoe. Correction, my storage room likely has every version, I
> onlt have 3 versiond an hand .My first word processor was Magic Window
> and from there I went to AppleWorks so by the time I got AppleWriter
> I already had a more recent WP.
> 1.1 is the last DOS 3.3 version I have on hand and unfortunetly there's
> no way to save as normal text. I'll try digging into my storage room but
> finding anything there is a trick in itself.
> 
>     Wayne