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icehawk on Sept 3, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows

Yeah TeachText, then SimpleText.

You'd make the Read Me documents on classic Mac OS by changing the type of the file from 'ttxt' to 'ttro'

auroch on Sept 3, 2023 [–]

Actually, you changed the file type from 'TEXT' to 'ttro' to make a Read Me document read-only. 'ttxt' was the application signature of TeachText and SimpleText and is now the signature of TextEdit.

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