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From: daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: Re: OmniWriter File Format Help
Message-ID: <577@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5-Aug-86 12:19:53 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  5 12:19:53 1986
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> From: <ferrill@eglin-vax>
> 
> I'm looking for information on the file format of a word processor for
> the C-64 called OmniWriter.  I need to move some files from the 64 over
> to an IBM-PC but can't figure out how the files are stored.  I can get
> the file over a modem to the PC but no idea how to convert them.  Any
> help or insight would be greatly appreciated.  Reply to the net or directly
> to my ARPA address below.
> 
> Paul Ferrill
> ferrill@eglin-vax.arpa
> ------

The OmniWriter manual contains detailed information on the storage of the
OmniWriter text.  I did a similar thing awhile back, when I was using a
CBM 8032 at work to print out the texts I wrote on the C64 at home.  Each
OmniWriter format code translates to a single character, and all of the
normal text is stored in an unusual format (maybe screen codes, I don't
remember exactly, but it wasn't the normal PETSCII (or HalfASCII, as we call 
it here) code).  Check toward the end of your manual, though, they have a
whole chapter (or was it appendix?) on reading OmniWriter files with other
programs.


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