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Dan Tobias: /* Sample files */

2020-02-12T00:02:20Z

‎Sample files

Dan Tobias: Add subcategory for Word Processor

2018-04-23T23:27:13Z

Add subcategory for Word Processor

Jsummers: Category:Microsoft Compound File

2014-11-15T01:08:09Z

Category:Microsoft Compound File

Dan Tobias: /* Identification */

2014-06-04T03:57:53Z

‎Identification

Dan Tobias at 22:28, 3 June 2014

2014-06-03T22:28:25Z

Dan Tobias: /* Identification */

2014-01-19T18:11:32Z

‎Identification

Dan Tobias at 17:56, 19 January 2014

2014-01-19T17:56:28Z

Dan Tobias at 17:34, 19 January 2014

2014-01-19T17:34:38Z

Dan Tobias at 17:29, 19 January 2014

2014-01-19T17:29:41Z

Dan Tobias at 17:29, 19 January 2014

2014-01-19T17:29:28Z

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 == Sample files ==
-* [http://www.dan.info/sampledata/Write4.aww Write4.aww] - Test document in Ability Write 4.x format
+* [https://www.dan.info/sampledata/Write4.aww Write4.aww] - Test document in Ability Write 4.x format
-* [http://www.dan.info/sampledata/Write6.aww Write6.aww] - Test document in Ability Write 6.x format
+* [https://www.dan.info/sampledata/Write6.aww Write6.aww] - Test document in Ability Write 6.x format
-* [http://www.dan.info/sampledata/Write6.awp Write6.awp] - Test template in Ability Write 6.x format
+* [https://www.dan.info/sampledata/Write6.awp Write6.awp] - Test template in Ability Write 6.x format
-* [http://www.dan.info/sampledata/testletter.aww testletter.aww] - Another 6.x document; sample business letter
+* [https://www.dan.info/sampledata/testletter.aww testletter.aww] - Another 6.x document; sample business letter
 == Other links ==

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 |formattype=electronic
 |subcat=Document
 |extensions={{ext|aww}}, {{ext|awp}}
 |released=1994

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 The format appears to store the text characters of the document contiguously in the middle of the document (with lots of header and footer parts that store other things like fonts and formatting). In the 6.x format, the characters are in a 16-bit encoding, little-endian; sometimes consistent with 16-bit [[Unicode]] or [[UTF-16]] (ASCII characters show up as their normal values with extra 00 bytes between them to fill out the 16 bits), but on occasion other characters don't seem to be in Unicode values; Greek capital alpha came out as F041 (byte sequence 41 F0) in one test, though in other tests characters such as Greek and Hebrew came out in their normal Unicode positions. In the 4.x format, 8-bit characters are used, which is apparently unable to properly store non-ASCII characters, which map crudely onto ASCII characters, losing information.
-The format appears to be a variety of the OLE2 [[ Microsoft Compound File]].
+The format appears to be a variety of the OLE2 [[Microsoft Compound File]].
 == Identification ==
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 * [[Wikipedia:Ability Office|Wikipedia article on Ability Office]]
 * [http://www.ability.com/ Ability Software site]

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 == Identification ==
-Files appear to begin with the hex bytes <code>D0 CF 11 E0 A1 B1 1A E1</code>. However, so do files in [[Ability Spreadsheet]], so you can't easily tell the difference other than by file extension.
+Files appear to begin with the hex bytes <code>D0 CF 11 E0 A1 B1 1A E1</code>. However, so do files in [[Ability Spreadsheet]], so you can't easily tell the difference other than by file extension. And it seems that other OLE2 files do as well, so it isn't actually distinctive.
 == See also ==

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	The format appears to store the text characters of the document contiguously in the middle of the document (with lots of header and footer parts that store other things like fonts and formatting). In the 6.x format, the characters are in a 16-bit encoding, little-endian; sometimes consistent with 16-bit [[Unicode]] or [[UTF-16]] (ASCII characters show up as their normal values with extra 00 bytes between them to fill out the 16 bits), but on occasion other characters don't seem to be in Unicode values; Greek capital alpha came out as F041 (byte sequence 41 F0) in one test, though in other tests characters such as Greek and Hebrew came out in their normal Unicode positions. In the 4.x format, 8-bit characters are used, which is apparently unable to properly store non-ASCII characters, which map crudely onto ASCII characters, losing information.		The format appears to store the text characters of the document contiguously in the middle of the document (with lots of header and footer parts that store other things like fonts and formatting). In the 6.x format, the characters are in a 16-bit encoding, little-endian; sometimes consistent with 16-bit [[Unicode]] or [[UTF-16]] (ASCII characters show up as their normal values with extra 00 bytes between them to fill out the 16 bits), but on occasion other characters don't seem to be in Unicode values; Greek capital alpha came out as F041 (byte sequence 41 F0) in one test, though in other tests characters such as Greek and Hebrew came out in their normal Unicode positions. In the 4.x format, 8-bit characters are used, which is apparently unable to properly store non-ASCII characters, which map crudely onto ASCII characters, losing information.
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		+	The format appears to be a variety of the OLE2 [[ Microsoft Compound File]].

	== Identification ==		== Identification ==

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 Current versions of Ability Write can read and write files of both the current 6.x format and an earlier 4.x format.
-The format appears to store the text characters of the document contiguously in the middle of the document (with lots of header and footer parts that store other things like fonts and formatting). In the 6.x format, the characters are in a 16-bit encoding, little-endian; sometimes consistent with 16-bit [[Unicode]] or [[UTF-16]] (ASCII characters show up as their normal values with extra 00 bytes between them to fill out the 16 bits), but on occasion other characters don't seem to be in Unicode values; Greek capital alpha came out as F041 (byte sequence 41 F0) in one test, though in other tests characters such as Greek and Hebrew came out in their normal Unicode positions. In the 4.x format, 8-bit characters are used, which is apparently unable to properly store most special non-ASCII characters.
+The format appears to store the text characters of the document contiguously in the middle of the document (with lots of header and footer parts that store other things like fonts and formatting). In the 6.x format, the characters are in a 16-bit encoding, little-endian; sometimes consistent with 16-bit [[Unicode]] or [[UTF-16]] (ASCII characters show up as their normal values with extra 00 bytes between them to fill out the 16 bits), but on occasion other characters don't seem to be in Unicode values; Greek capital alpha came out as F041 (byte sequence 41 F0) in one test, though in other tests characters such as Greek and Hebrew came out in their normal Unicode positions. In the 4.x format, 8-bit characters are used, which is apparently unable to properly store non-ASCII characters, which map crudely onto ASCII characters, losing information.
 == Identification ==