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From: bird@MCS.COM (J. L. Walters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Appleworks WP Question...
Date: 24 Jul 1996 22:08:43 -0500
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Message-ID: <4t6ofr$fbj@Mars.mcs.com>
References: <gk08439@pro-palmtree.cts.com>
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In article <gk08439@pro-palmtree.cts.com>,
Richard Der <rder@pro-palmtree.cts.com> wrote:
>
>bard@smarty.smart.net (E.G. Land) wrote:
>> Two Questions:
>>
>>
>> Why is it my document loses its format whenever I save and
>> retrieve?
I'm guessing that you are using AW 5.1 and have loaded a text file. If
so, then your preferences say to save a text file as a text file. (A
good thing from my perspective.) The bad news is, when you save it the
file is saved as a text file which loses all formatting. Put the
folowing macro in your default macro set and call it before saving:
Force file to be saved as an AWP file even if: "Save text as text"
is specified in the Misc menu
<ba-A>:<awp>
<
poke $7C68,0 : // Force file to be saved as AWP even
// if save text as text files are set.
bell : // Let user know we worked
>!
================================================================
Another useful macro is:
#savetext = ba--
Causes files to be saved as text independent of the 'Save Text Files
as Text' option in misc menu of 'Select Standard Settings...' (Thanks
Wally)
<#savetext>:<awp>
<
A = peek $FFD: // Find out if bit 5 set
B = A : // Save old flag values
X = .andbits A,#bit5 : // Check if 'Save text files
if X = 0 : // as text' flag is set to No
A = A + #bit5 : // Set the flag in A to yes
poke $FFD,A: // Now in memory
endif:
A = peek $7C68 : // Get current file typ
poke $7C68,#iztext : // Set file type as text
// OA-S is $D3 and OA-Ctrl-S is $93, so we add that together to get
358.
// Subtracting the smart one from the total leaves the dumb one.
x = peek $10B1 : X = X + 1 + 128 : // Smart/dumb save value
DumbSave = 358 - x :
print chr$ DumbSave :
//oa-ctrl-S :
poke $7C68,A : // Restore file type
poke $FFD,B : // Restore "Save text ... "
>!
Hope this helps,
--
Joe Walters: bird@mcs.com or J.L.Walters@genie.com
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