[fa.info-mac] Can Pascal read MacWrite files?

info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) (10/26/84)

From: zauderer%ucbcory@Berkeley (Marvin M. Zauderer)

   I'm writing software for the Mac via Lisa Pascal, and I'm wondering
whether I can create MacWrite data files and have my programs operate
on the data in those files. Has anyone tried this? I vaguely recall
reading a message about doing this from MacPascal - can a similar
procedure (whatever it is - please let me know) be applied in the Lisa
Workshop environment?
   I've tried reading MacWrite files (programmatically) but I get extraneous
characters along with the text.

Thanks,
Marvin

info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) (11/07/84)

From: decvax!dartvax!crs@uw-beaver.arpa (Carl Spitzer)
     MacWrite files saved as "Entire Document" (as opposed to "Text Only") will
appear to have garbage characters mixed in.  These are MacWrite's formatting
characters, and will go away if you explicitily save the file as Text-Only, 
using Save As... from the file menu.  If this is not your problem, get in
touch w/ me as I have successfully read from MacWrite (Text-only) documents.
Hope this was some help,
     Carl Spitzer