Re: Filetype $50 question

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

In article <1993Mar31.142120.65554@cc.usu.edu> sl3rz@cc.usu.edu writes:
> Recently I have downloaded several archives from cco.caltech and from the
> apple2.binaries newsgroup.  After unshrinking them, the documentation files
> are of filetype $50.  How do I open these files to read / print hardcopy of
> them?  Appleworks can't open them and APW cannot type them.

Filetype $50 is "IIgs Word Processor".  The Auxiliary type specifies
exactly WHICH word processor they are written with.  Two that come to
mind:

Type $50 Aux $8010 is AppleWorks GS Word Processor
Type $50 Aux $5445 is Teach

There are probably several others.

To read an AppleWorks GS Word Processor file, you need AppleWorks GS.
The "Teach" program supplied with System 6 can also read AWGS files.

To read Teach files, you need "Teach", or any of the many other IIgs
editors that can read this file format, including most NDA editors
(WriteIt, EGOed, etc.), my "About" program (read only), ORCA/M 2.0 and
probably several others.

If you don't have any of these, and the file is a Teach file (aux type
$5445), take a copy of it and change its filetype to TXT.  You will
then be able to read it with APW.  Note that a Teach file has a data
fork which contains the text, and a resource fork which contains style
information.  You can't read files with resource forks from a ProDOS-8
program.

You can't do this with an AppleWorks GS file.
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David Empson                                                               
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