Re: [NTLK] Newton Format

From: Goodwin, Greg P. (GoodwinG_at_aafes.com)
Date: Tue Jun 07 2005 - 12:56:09 PDT


        Thanks! I'll read up on that.

Greg Goodwin
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Subject: Re: [NTLK] Newton Format

Goodwin, Greg P. wrote:
> Thanks Victor. Now, how EXACTLY is the Newton backup procedure
> done? Say with the Newton Backup Utility? It will take an 8 meg
card
> and make a sizeable backup file on a desktop. What exactly is that
blob
> of a file?

I don't know exactly, but it *might* be a container of NSOF (Newton
Streamed=20
Object Format) objects. NSOF is documented in Chapter 4 of Newton
Formats:

http://www.unna.org/unna/apple/documentation/developer/NewtonFormats1.1.
pdf

This is also the format of those .nwt attachments that you can e-mail.

The Mac and Windows versions of NCU/NBU create differently formatted
backup=20
files though, so maybe they don't use NSOF.

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