Re: Any //e files?

[mnementh@netcom.com (David R. Villegas)]

smmcafee@mtu.edu (Sean McAfee) wrote:
>>	Have you seen or tried Jim Royal's "Star Trek: First Contact" for the 
>>8-bit Apple //e? I posted this up on binaries a couple of months back, but
>>maybe you've missed it.
>
>I just downloaded it and tried it out, and I have a quick question.
>
>The instruction manual seems to be in the form of an Appleworks word processor
>document, but when I try to read it in using AW, I get a message like "Errors
>while trying to read file ST.FC.MANUAL".  Now my copy of Appleworks is ancient
>--it's the same disk I've been using since ~1987--so this could be the problem.
>If this is the case, is there some kind of conversion program that'll enable
>me to view this file?  If not, what else could be wrong?

If I remember correctly, you need at least Appleworks 3.0.  However, you can
use Shrinkit to view the file.

>Sorry to be cluttering up the newsgroup, but I've already tried everything I
>could think of.  Using "Type File" from ProTerm displays some text but leaves
>out the rest.  I even whipped up a quick C program to view the hex contents
>of the file, and that was enough to convince me that a quick fix with "tr" or
>"awk" wasn't gonna happen.

A hex and text dump should make the file somewhat clear.  If you view the file
from your favorite sector or block editor, you'll see text with Appleworks
formatting values.