Re: Another File of unknow origin

From	Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.misc
Subject	Re: Another File of unknow origin
Date	2025-01-13 20:10 +0100
Organization	Jean-Michel
Message-ID	<45e9b4de5b.jmb@jmc.bruck.orange.fr> (permalink)
References	<5bdc133a3cdave@triffid.co.uk> <vlmnec$2ue36$1@dont-email.me>

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          druck <news@druck.org.uk> wrote:

> On 08/01/2025 16:31, Dave wrote:
>> Fay has been doing some file/disk housekeeping and found a few files from
>> the last century which she can't read and make sense of.
>> 
>> She thinks it was written in a text "thing..."
>> 
>> I've tried in StrongED, Zap etc, but they just display some sort of
>> document formatting, I think.
>> 
>> I've also tried, Imp Publisher, Style, Imp Junior and InterWord, and I
>> would try WordWise+ but I did have, but can't now find the WW+ emulator I
>> used to have, so I can't test that out.
>> 
>> The first line of the files start with...
>> 
>> ''d@xV4  etc... (And in case Pluto excises the characters).
>> 
>> Hat
>> w  ' d@  x V4  etc...
> 
> Pretty meaningless, use the *dump command to display the file as bytes
> and ascii and paste the first line in to the email.
> 
>> Anyone have any idea?
> 
> There are a couple of old (26 bit only) programs called !Recognise and
> !TypeFind which may be able to identify the files, if you can find them.
> 
> ---druck
> 
I have !TypeFind  32 bit version.


-- 
Jean-Michel

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    Re: Another File of unknow origin Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-01-13 20:10 +0100
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      Re: Another File of unknow origin druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2025-01-13 21:03 +0000
        Re: Another File of unknow origin Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-01-13 22:53 +0100

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