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0 pointsbadsectoracula2y ago0 comments

Write is actually quite barebones, paragraph and text styling with paragraphs being "images" (Win3.0) or OLE objects (Win3.1, images were OLE objects). Tables, etc were done manually with tabstops.

There is a text file describing the reverse engineered file format here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130831064118/http://msxnet.org...

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throwaway20372y ago

You are right! I had Write mixed up with Wordpad.

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0 pointsbadsectoracula2y ago0 comments

Write is actually quite barebones, paragraph and text styling with paragraphs being "images" (Win3.0) or OLE objects (Win3.1, images were OLE objects). Tables, etc were done manually with tabstops.

There is a text file describing the reverse engineered file format here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130831064118/http://msxnet.org...

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throwaway20372y ago

You are right! I had Write mixed up with Wordpad.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse