Re: Reading PROSEL.DOC

[magnusfalkirk <dean.phares@gmail.com>]

On Jul 28, 1:31 pm, Warren Ernst <wer...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 27, 9:39 pm, magnusfalkirk <dean.pha...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Jul 27, 3:27 pm, "John B. Matthews" <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
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> > > Mine is named PROSEL.8.DOC and it's not readable with Word or TextEdit.
> > > That's why I proposed the emulator-browser approach. I'm guessing the
> > > ProSel TYPE command decompresses it as it formats it.
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> > > --
> > > John B. Matthews
> > > trashgod at gmail dot com
> > > home dot woh dot rr dot com slash jbmatthews
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> > I guess I goofed. It looks like what I opened was the Prosel 16 docs.
> > I just tried my own suggestion with the actual Prosel 8 docs and had
> > the exact same trouble you did John. I wonder why one file would be
> > easily opened and readable, while the other is a complete mess?
>
> > Makes no sense to me,
> > Dean
>
> > P.S. to actually get the Prosel 8 docs I had to download the shk, in a
> > zipped format, from here:http://apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/Utils/then
> > unzip it with Stuffit, then use ADFS to open the disk image of the GS
> > hard drive I use and import the shk into that. Then startup Sweet 16,
> > use Shrintit GS to open the shk file and extract it to a folder on the
> > hard drive image. Then quit Sweet 16 use ADFS to open the hard drive
> > image again and export the Prose.8.doc file from the HD image to my
> > Mac so that I could try both TextEdit and Word to open the file. ;-)
>
> Since you went through all the effort to get a Word-openable
> PROSEL8.DOC file, and I asked about it a few months ago and tried some
> things unsuccessfully, could you email me your altered and open-able
> PROSEL8.DOC file?
> wernst at nospam gmail nospam dot com
>
> Thanks,
> Warr

Warren,

I e-mailed you a copy of the PDF I made from the Prosel 8 doc. If you
also need the Prosel 16 doc, to understand some of the stuff in 8 that
is similar to stuff in 16, let me know.

Dean