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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: AppleWorks file stuff
Message-ID: <34574@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 7 Sep 89 20:59:39 GMT
References: <QZ1Kx=a00WB9RaiFsI@andrew.cmu.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <QZ1Kx=a00WB9RaiFsI@andrew.cmu.edu> gt0t+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Gregory Ross Thompson) writes:
>  Well, I spent about a half hour yesterday examining how AppleWorks manages
>to save files as "File Number 1" instead of "FILE.NUMBER.1".  It does not, I
>repeat DOES NOT put spaces in the file name life someone mentioned earlier on
>this bboard.  Here's how it works: [...uses the auxiliary type to record
which characters are lowercase, treating " " as a lowercase period...]

Yup, you got it.

Note that this information is available in Apple II File Type Notes $19, $1A,
and $1B.
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