Re: Odd text

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca> wrote:

> Someone sent our user group a disk (1 of 50) that contained some old
> records of their association. The person that made the records isn't
> available. The records were on a DOS 3.3 disk and in text format. So about
> anything opens the files but the lower case letters were all upper case
> and the upper case letters were some odd symbol. Ring a bell with anyone?

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.