whitney@think.COM (David Whitney) (08/19/87)
This is a multiple question...
a) does anyone know what the filesize limit is in APW editor? I currently
use ORCA/M (pretty old version), and its max size seems to be roughly 20k.
I am working on a modem program, and I currently edit it in AppleWorks,
because it's the only thing I have that can hold the whole source file.
When I want to re-assemble, I have to "print to an ASCII file on disk" which
takes forever (this file is about 80k, and AppleWorks makes a separate ProDOS
call for every character to be written)
b) saving an AppleWorks file goes much quicker than printing to the disk.
Therefore, if APW can't hold my 80k file (which seems silly, since one
requirement on APW is 1.25meg - the editor should be able to use a lot of mem)
then I'd like to write an AppleWorks->text file converter.
c) has such a converter been written? If not, can someone please send me
the format of an AppleWorks WP file? Thanks a great deal.
David Whitney, MIT '90 Still learning about my Apple //GS
{the known universe}!ihnp4!think!whitney and all of its secrets. Any and all
whitney@think.com technical info appreciated.
DISCLAIMER: You didn't actually believe all that, did you?BHUBER@ECLA.USC.EDU (08/24/87)
Orca/GS editor is limited to 64K in one file according to documentation. Prior conversations with the friendly ByteWorks people (makes APW for Apple) gives little chance of changing that. Main reason is that assembly level stuff by Orca has ability to "include" additional files using simple procedures during the assembly process. Bud