patth@dasys1.UUCP (Patt Haring) (08/25/88)
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The attached text file is from MIX. It describes how to edit a disk text file
which exceeds the maximum length of the MouseTalk editor.
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appleworks/5.discuss #571, from hchandler, 3067 chars, Sun Aug 7 03:51:44 1988
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TITLE: Overcoming Mousetalk Editor Limitations
Mousetalk Users:
Sometime ago I asked if anyone knew how to edit a file that was too
long for the Mousetalk Editor's 33K limit. There wasn't much that
could/can be done *IN* Mousetalk, BUT I have found my way into
transferring the mousetalk file into an ASCII file and breaking it down in
Appleworks, and then sending it back into Mousetalk, Or just leaving it
Appleworks and using the Beagle Bros "Time Out" series 'Quickspell' to
clean (anything that needs) it up. I stumbled upon this while 'playing
around' late one night:
1. Boot up your AppleWorks (v2.0, or later)
2. Select "Add files to the desktop" from Main Menu
3. Select "3. Word Processing"
4. Select "2. From a text (ASCII) file"
5. Type in the pathname (when prompted at bottom of screen)
* make sure you put any periods that appear in the
name of your files. If you have spaces in the name
of your mousetalk file, there are periods instead of
spaces.
* IF YOU DON'T REMEMBER THE PATHNAME (the name of you
disk AND file name you want to edit in AppleWorks)
then you can go back to the MAIN MENU in AppleWorks
and select #5 "Other Activities" and then select #2
"List all files on the current disk drive" and you
see what the exact title of the disk (the name in
caps after 'Disk volume') and the file name (under
the dotted line, under the 'name' category). Write
them down exactly and then press Open Apple Q and
select the word processing file you've created for
this endeavor.
6. The prompt line at the bottom of the screen will ask you
to "Type in a name for this new file:"
Magically, or seemingly so, the file will appear in its
entirety and you can break it down into 2 separate files,
or 3, or 57, or however many you feel you need! <tee hee>
7. Press Open Apple O<ptions> and make the left and right margins 0 and
the platen width 8.5 to get the file to look like it did when it came
into Mousetalk
TO REVERSE THE PROCESS WHENCE YOU'VE FINISHED EDITING YOUR
FILES INTO SOMETHING YOUR MOUSETALK EDITOR CAN HANDLE:
1. Press Open Apple P<rint>
2. Select "From Beginning"
3. Select "4. A text (ASCII) file on disk
4. At the prompt, type in the pathname (again?) and press return
5. The disk drive will whir and save your file to your Mousetalk --- this
is assuming that you've put it back in the disk drive AND that you
didn't want it as an AppleWorks file anyway!
Now I KNOW that some people might find this "UTTERLY PEDESTRIAN", but for
those of us who find themselves in the same boat I was in and need to see
what they've down loaded, this is a life (file?) saver. Please let me know
how others fair with this and if you've got other tricks for this sort of
thing.
You can also take AppleWorks files into Mousetalk as well IF they are
transferred into ASCII files fairly easily also, but this isn't the problem
I was trying to overcome....
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