Re: Superworks for sale?

["Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@attglobal.net>]

Jeff, I'm sure you're right about the version of my Superworks. I'm real
sure it was earlier than 3.1.

I would generally recommend that people who need to swap to a PC try to
transition to Microsoft Works. It is the Windows program I have seen come
closest to the concept of Appleworks and it's generally a pretty nice
program.

Personally, I use Microsoft Office and wouldn't be without it, but
Microsoft's lack of a good general-purpose database program in Office is a
little nutty.

Tom Zuchowski


"Jeff Wisnia" <jwisnia@110.net> wrote in message
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> Tom Zuchowski wrote:
>
> > Be aware that conversion to Superworks is a one-way street. The program
has
> > no provision for saving in any format but its own, not even TXT nor DIF
> > formats. It's too early to know where you will be in the future, but
early
> > reports I've seen of DOS program compatibility with Windows XP are not
> > promising.
> >
> > I think you'd be as well or better off running Appleworks under a good
> > emulation such as Apple Oasis, if you really don't care to run Microsoft
> > Works or something similar.
> >
> > Tom Zuchowski
> >
> > "Steve Hartz" <SHARTZ@columbus.rr.com> wrote in message
> > news:mtNp7.54810$Iq4.29088985@typhoon.columbus.rr.com...
> > > Does anyone have a copy of superworks for use on my IBM machine?  I
miss
> > > Appleowrks and this emulator is supposed to be ok..
> > >
> > > Reply to SHartz40@yahoo.com
> > >
> > >
>
> Close, but not quite right, Tom. Superworks 3.1 can export database data
in
> dBase format, which can be sucked right in by Microsoft Works. It can also
> "print to file" a database file. The word processor module can export text
> files. I'm not sure about the Spreadsheet module though, you may be right
about
> that one.
>
> Maybe you were referring to an earlier version of SuperWorks?
>
> I certainly agree with your comments about SuperWorks. In today's world
it's a
> dinosaur, useful only for it's antique value. However I do have one
employee in
> my business _still_ using SuperWorks to maintain some infrequently used
> databases she'd started long ago on Appleworks on her //e. I'd used
Crossworks
> to ship her data over to her PC about 8 years ago. She seems cool with it,
and
> I don't have the heart to force her to change...
>
> If anybody reading this wants to play with SuperWorks, email me. The
publisher
> seems to have gone underground anyway.
>
> Jeff
>
> Jeff Wisnia    W1BSV     Brass Rat '57 ee
>
> "Things which go away by themselves usually come back by themselves."
>
>