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In article <zSw*Im73z@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
   Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi folks.
> > Me, asking again out of desperation...
> > 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).

> I vaguely remember '@xV4' being an Impression Style/Publisher header. 
> I'm not sure if there's a difference in filetype between the two, but
> I'd try both.  I think Junior used an application directory rather than
> single file (at least I know Impression II did).

> Theo

Initially, I'd tried ImpDoc and bc5 as a file type, but at the time, that
didn't do the business.

After I'd posted the above, I tried a lot of stuff to get her info out of
the files.

Eventually, and don't ask me what I did, I succeeded in getting Imp Style
to load the files and then resave the documents.

Considering the datestamp on the files it must have been when we were
using Imp Style, but that's a long time ago, so it's very vague now.

Yes, Junior did use the Appdir rather than a single file, but Style and
Publisher had a Menu-File- option to "Save as a Single file". 

I remember back then we did a lot of resaving old Junior appdir file out
of Imp Style to make them Single files.

Dave

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Dave Triffid

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