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In article <5bc657115edave@triffid.co.uk>,
   Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:
> Please, anyone have clue?
> Ramble...

> Many years ago, before I retired, I transferred much of my old business
> (Early years) data stored on 3.5 inch stiffies (Floppy disks in a hard
> case) to CDs and Hardrives.

> Unfortunately, I've been going through this ancient stuff looking for
> some specific things, long forgotten.

> Obviously in the file sense, all the files are openable, and many fully
> openable in there assigned apps that still kind of work (Virtual
> InterSheet for example) when given the appropriate RISC OS filetype.

> InterWord as another example, though Impression Publisher with an
> appropriate filter will Load InterWord files.

> However, I found a few very early files, 1984 to 1986 that I can see in
> StrongED but have no apps to open them and was wondering if any folks
> here might have any clues from the header data what it might have been.

> (Would have been created on a BBC-B).

Sorry needed to repost as some of the c&p hashes and [00]s below went
missing during the post process...
It should read...

> No1:
> [Load of stuff] ArchieFile [Load of stuff]...



> No2:
> Second set of files from IIRC. a database app of some sort, and all files
> have the following in the header, depending on the save out.

> [Load of stuff] 70F2RN35 [Etc]
> [Load of stuff] 70F2CY35 [Etc]

> No biggy... but I did wonder.  :-)

> Thanks
> Dave

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Dave Triffid

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