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Re: Windis file formats?

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From: Alistair Bell
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 00:00
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Malcolm Muir wrote:
> G.A.Rixon (GAR@waerloga.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> > Can anyone help a beginner in this field by pointing me to the
> > location of any files describing the format of the files used by
> > windis news transfer functions?[snip] 
> The format of data held on your disks is probably proprietary to
> windis.

[Apologies for the mucked-up post before this: finger trouble and our news goes
off to a Unix machine where I can't get at it to cancel it before it gets to the
world]

Windis uses (in general) the standard KA9Q file formats; ISTR someone documented
them, but quite where I don't know. It's all fairly self-explanatory though.

--
Alistair Bell, Brown's Operating System Services, London. Disclaimers as usual.
alistair@browns.co.uk (home: alistair@ichthya.demon.co.uk)

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