Re: [NTLK] Newton Book Format

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Thu Feb 28 2002 - 14:36:38 EST


On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Steven Frank wrote:

> I'd be interested to hear anything you learn about the format. If it's
> simple enough, maybe I add a Mac OS X-compatible book maker to NewTen.
> A hex dump of a plain-text book file with some comments would go a long
> way.
>
> I was also trying to reverse engineer the book format but had trouble
> getting Apple's Book Maker to work at all, even under OS 9. I ran out
> of time to pursue it. But I'll happily let you do all the work and just
> port the results. ;)

Steven, the package header format is described in the Newton Formats file
on UNNA:

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

and also in a doc written by me for the Newton Bowels project:

http://www.kallisys.com/newton/bowels/Structure_Of_Package_Header.txt

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