DisplayWrite

DisplayWrite was an early Word Processing program built by IBM based on the IBM DisplayWriter dedicated system.

File Information
Depending on version, DisplayWrite saves documents to a proprietary binary format with the extension .DOC. Versions 4, 4.2, and 5 files have the BOF hex values for the first 14 bytes.

DisplayWrite software cannot save to other word processing formats, making it difficult to migrate content. Many other software titles can import DisplayWrite files, like WordPerfect.

Related Formats

 * DCA - Document Content Architecture
 * RFT - Revisable Format Text
 * FFT - Final Form text

Software

 * IBM DisplayWrite 4 software]
 * Legacy Word Processing file converter