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The DocDatatypes and DocDatatypes Lite systems are Shareware.
To register DocDatatypes it is only 20 pounds sterling(or 40 US Dollars), and to register DocDatatypes Lite it is only 10 pounds sterling(or 20 US Dollars), information for registering can be received by emailing the Author.
 

Latest News This page was last updated on the 6th of August 2005. The latest version of DocDatatypes is v40.40. The major change from version 40.30 is the support of reading MacBinary MS-Word files. Also added to the archive is the latest version of FindFile, a new fast, easy to use file finder application that offers search by name, size, date, and even file type. All feedback is welcome on FindFile. In association with Amiga Arena a special version of DocDatatypes is available, called DocDatatypes Lite. It is for those that do not need support of all the exotic file formats that are currently supported. For more information on DocDatatypes Lite click here. SpitFire the Palm Desktop by Ralph Torchia becomes the first application to support native file format loading and saving via DocDatatypes. If you are a programmer and want to add Text DataType support to your program, it is very easy to do. Email me to obtain source code and examples on how to do this.
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Registered Users

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Information

Amiga OS Release 3 the Amiga has the concept of datatypes classes, which allow specific file types to be categorized and groups of operations can be done on them via a uniform API(such as viewing, converting and printing). MultiView is an application that utilizes these datatypes and handles any file for which you have a datatypes class installed.

DocDatatypes is a set of Datatypes classes for documents. It is a subclass of the text.datatype.
DocDatatypes Lite contains only the msdoc.datatype, rtfdoc.datatype and the wpdoc.datatype.

The msdoc.datatype currently supports the reading of the following data formats:

• DosWord 4, 5 and 5.5
• WinWord 1, 2, 6, 95, 97, 2000, 2002(XP)
• Windows Write 3
• MacWord 4, 5, 98
• MS Works 3, 4
• OS 2 Word

• AmiPro 1, 2, 3

• WordStar 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
• WordStar 2000 1, 2, 3

• WordPerfect 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 2000 ...
• WordPerfect Notebook
• WordPerfect Program Editor/Ed Editor
• WordPerfect Macro Editor
• Letter Perfect

• Rich Text File
• Pocket Word 1, 2

• XyWrite III

• Psion Quill Doc
• QL Quill Doc

• Psion Word
• Psion TextEd

• Palm DB TEXt Doc (compressed and uncompressed)
• RichReader Doc (compressed and uncompressed)
• TEAL Doc (compressed and uncompressed)

• Atari 1st Word(plus)

• Mac Write 4.5
• Mac Text
• Mac TeachText

Tables in the documents are converted to comma seperated value(csv) tables which can easily be converted back to tables by most word processors.

Copyright

The DocDatatypes package is Copyright (©)2000-2005 by Amarpreet Singh Munde.
Distribution of this software package is not allowed, it is only available from the Author or demos are available from this web site. If this software is obtained by other means please contact the author at docdatatypes@yahoo.com.
Distribution on CD-ROMs, disks series, cover disks or any other media requires permission of the Author.

Author Information

This software is written by:
Amarpreet Singh Munde.
email: docdatatypes@yahoo.com

Download

To download the latest version of the DocDatatypes distribution choose the archive format you want to download:
NOTE: If you are having trouble with the lzx archive then you will need to download the lha archive. The problem is usually caused by your Web Browser(mostly on MS-Windows) corrupting the lzx file since your Internet browser is not configured correctly for it.
 

Name Version Size Download DocDatatypes 40.40(7 June 2002) 98kb Lha Archive DocDatatypes 40.40(7 June 2002) 50kb Lzx Archive

You may need to shift click or use your browsers context menu(right-click) and select download or save link as...
It is an archive in lzx/lha format and first you should extract it to ram: and then copy it to a location on your hard disk. Then you should read the documentation and run the installer via Install_DT.
You should also note that a lot of applications that support datatypes such as FinalWriter and WordWorth only support picture datatypes and they do not support text datatypes, to use these datatypes with those applications you should load the document into MultiView and then save it via Save As.. then load the saved file into that application(eg FinalWriter, WordWorth etc).