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From: ja@galbp.UUCP (Jeff Alperin)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: MacWrite File Format
Message-ID: <210@galbp.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Oct-85 21:13:06 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 14 21:13:06 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 17-Oct-85 00:34:49 EDT
Reply-To: ja@galbp.UUCP (Jeff Alperin)
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Organization: Lanier Business Products, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia
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I am trying to write an application which will convert formatted
MacWrite 4.5 files to files which can be submitted to the word
processor at my company.  To do so, I need to know how MacWrite
formats files (ie. what control codes does it write in a file
to indicate margins, tabs, font types, text attributes, etc.). I
looked at several sample files and discovered that each contains
400+ bytes before the text begins; what is this header?  Any help
decoding this file type would be most appreciated.
Thanks.
        Jeff Alperin