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From Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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Subject Re: Another File of unknow origin
Date 08 Jan 2025 19:05:45 +0000 (GMT)
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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

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