Your statement prompted me to check out how these
books look in a universal text editor on the Windows
side. I use UltraEdit and I opened one of the books up
in that.
YUCK! You have to be pretty desperate to have to
convert that into something readable...All characters
are spaced with periods! I think that if someone wants
to go through all that just to get the LOTR in text
format, then so be it...
It would take a special type of person to spend their
time doing that.
Ed
web/gadget guru
--- Jon Glass <jonglass_at_usa.net> wrote:
>
> on 11/1/01 11:24 PM, Ed Kummel at tech_ed_at_yahoo.com
> wrote:
>
> > I realize that people outside the Newton community
> can
> > come to my page and download the file..and that's
> > OK...they can't do anything with it...the only
> people
> > who can actually use these books are Newton users.
>
> Not true, sorry. I hate to jump in on this issue,
> and I'm not really. :-)
> Only that you can open a copy of a Newton book in an
> older version of
> Microsoft Word on the Mac (I've done it in 5.0) and
> use the search/replace
> to remove all the unicode "squares" between the
> letters, and then delete the
> rest of the binary data, leaving the text behind.
> :-) Of course, it's not
> likely that somebody is going to think of this, but
> it is possible...
> --
> -Jon Glass
> Krakow, Poland
> <mailto:jonglass_at_usa.net>
> <mailto:glasshaus5_at_aol.com>
> "[T]he law . . . dictated by God Himself is, of
> course, superior in
> obligation to any other. It is binding over all the
> globe, in all countries,
> and at all times. No human laws are of any validity
> if contrary to this."
> --Alexander Hamilton, signer of the Constitution
=====
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