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Article #2525Re: WordPerfect 5.1 format - anyone?
From: Joel M. Hoffman
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 00:53
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 00:53
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In article <BzB36x.9s8@unix.amherst.edu> kehandle@unix.amherst.edu (KEITH EDWARD HANDLEY) writes: >Ed de Moel (Demoel@Fwva.Saic.Com) wrote: >: I'm looking for a description of the internal format that WordPerfect >: uses for its text-files. > >You can buy the developer's toolkit from WordPerfect Corp. I know it >was once available, but I don't know how much it costs. Alternatively, there's a program out there somewhere for retrieving encoded WP files without knowing the encryption key. With the program is an article that describes how they do it. The article also describes the format of the header information in WP files. It's not complete, but you may want to start there. I have no idea where the program/article can be found. Sorry. -Joel (joel@wam.umd.edu)
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Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.text,comp.text.desktop Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!wam.umd.edu!joel From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) Subject: Re: WordPerfect 5.1 format - anyone? Message-ID: <1992Dec16.005314.1811@wam.umd.edu> Sender: usenet@wam.umd.edu (USENET News system) Nntp-Posting-Host: rac2.wam.umd.edu Organization: University of Maryland, College Park References: <9670331@MVB.SAIC.COM> <BzB36x.9s8@unix.amherst.edu> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 00:53:14 GMT Lines: 19