Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!paperboy!osf.org!josh From: josh@osf.org (Joshua Goldman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: AW and Text files Message-ID: <19139@paperboy.OSF.ORG> Date: 20 Feb 91 19:06:30 GMT References: <1991Feb18.140814.5998@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <44353@ut-emx.uucp> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Reply-To: josh@osf.org (Joshua Goldman) Organization: Open Software Foundation, Cambridge, Massachusetts Lines: 35 In article <44353@ut-emx.uucp>, daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang) writes: |> In article <1991Feb18.140814.5998@nntp-server.caltech.edu> toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes: |> >sehrlich@lynx.northeastern.edu writes: |> >>Question: I know Appleworks can save files in Text format, but can |> >>it retrieve text files, too? |> > |> >I know 3.0 can, under add new WP. Not sure about earlier versions though. |> |> 2.x can too, also under add new WP. I'm pretty sure all versions can |> import text files, since it's a very common thing that one needs to |> do. |> |> -- |> David Huang | |> Internet: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu | "Slight accidents with funny rays |> UUCP: ...!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu!daveh | can have serious consequences" |> America Online: DrWho29 | Well I have Appleworks 1.0 and it can retrieve text files, BUT you have to remember that when you go from an AW word proc. file to text file you lose some formatting information (bold, margins, etc). It also may add line breaks at the end of the page. When you read it back in to AW, it will not be identical to the file that you started with. I assume that the newer versions of AW "retrieve" text files in the same way. This is different from saving a file with markups indicating formatting and then retrieving it. Joshua Goldman josh@osf.org (617)-621-8857 Open Software Foundation 11 Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA 02142 Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com