MacWrite document problem

Thread View: net.micro.mac

3 messages

[T] Back to Threads [V] Tree View [G] Group Articles

3 total messages Started by David Lassner Tue, 07 Oct 1986 21:08

#7525

Author: David Lassner
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1986 21:08

13 lines
1294 bytes

I'm having trouble salvaging a MacWrite document from a file which
MacWrite won't open.  It's a 42K document which the user says closed
ok on Friday, but wouldn't open Saturday.  MacWrite starts up, opens
the file, but the watch stays on the screen and we can't see more than
the title.  Naturally, the file represents a month's work and he doesn't
have a backup.

Word also won't open it, MacTools verifies the disk ok, and bit-copies
exhibit the same behavior.  The only funny thing I could see in the
directory was that the Finder Flags are 0101 rather than the usual 0100.
How is the last bit (and for that matter, byte) used?  Any ideas on what
might be the problem, or more importantly, how to salvage the contents?
Thanks!

Re: MacWrite document problem

#7521

Author: David Lassner
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1986 21:41

9 lines
944 bytes

>I'm having trouble salvaging a MacWrite document from a file which
>MacWrite won't open.  It's a 42K document which the user says closed

Sorry, missed my address on that.  It's:

David Lassner ...sdcsvax!noscvax!humu!uhmanoa!david
	      humu!uhmanoa!david@noscvax.ARPA
              PLATO - david lassner/remotep/pca
University of Hawaii Computing Center

Re: MacWrite document problem

#7544

Author: Dale Carstensen
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1986 00:07

5 lines
787 bytes

> The only funny thing I could see in the
> directory was that the Finder Flags are 0101 rather than the usual 0100.
The 01 bit (bit 0) means the icon appears on the desktop in an HFS environment.
The irony is that bit 8 is not documented!  Bit 13 is bundle, 14 is invisible,
but both of those are in the upper byte, too.

Thread Navigation

This is a paginated view of messages in the thread with full content displayed inline.

Messages are displayed in chronological order, with the original post highlighted in green.

Use pagination controls to navigate through all messages in large threads.

Back to All Threads