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- From: N.J.Dixon@bradford.ac.uk (NJ DIXON)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: HELP WANTED: MS-Works file format?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.172819.9395@bradford.ac.uk>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 17:28:19 GMT
- Organization: University of Bradford, UK
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- I need to write a program which will read a .WPS file created in the Works
- word-processor and display the file on a SPARCstation with formatting, styles,
- etc intact.
-
- I've tried looking at the contents of .WPS files with the same text but
- different styles, but I can't guess what the format is. There appears to be
- just a 256-byte header, followed by the plain text of the document, and a
- 'footer' made up of a few more codes at the end, but that's about all I know.
-
- If some kind soul (at Microsoft perhaps?) could let me know how these .WPS
- files are stored (or let me know where I can find out) it would make my life a
- hell of a lot easier.
-
- - Nick Dixon (N.J.Dixon@bradford.ac.uk)
-