Re: 8-bit Appleworks files

[Declan Macleoid <declan_macleoid@hotmail.com>]

> From: gar@runbox.com (George Randall)
> Organization: LGA Engineering
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:43:53 GMT
> Subject: 8-bit Appleworks files
> 
> Hope someone can help my foggy memory.  Do Appleworks files (the 8-bit
> kind) contain the characters as recognizable text?  Specifically, if I
> (who have no access to any Apple II machine) read my files on a 3.5
> inch floppy on a Mac, will I be able to send a text file to my Windoze
> machine?  WP files are my main concern, but I might try to get data
> from DB and SS files too if it works.
> 
> If the answer is no, are there any helpful people who perform
> translations for hire or for some kind of favor trade?  A quick search
> on Google did not turn up any Apple 2 services, but I hope this group
> would have the best leads.
> 
> Thanks very much
> 
> George Randall
> gar@runbox.com

I just discovered what appears to be a pretty neat program called Deja ][
that allows you to run AppleWorks 5.1 on a PowerMac.  You need a few files
from AppleWorks 5.1 (some are supplied with Deja ][, some aren't...).  It
was written by Mark Munz and released by Randy Brandt.  You can find it at
http://trenco2.gno.org/pub/apple2/mac.tools/openphoenix.sea.hqx   Trenco
says it's a freeware release.

Once you've got AppleWorks running on your Mac, you can print to an ASCII
file and then import that file into whatever you use...

As for ClarisWorks/(Mac)AppleWorks, I just tried opening several files in
(Mac)AppleWorks 5.0.4 that were saved by (A2)AppleWorks 4 and 5 with mixed
success.  Sometimes it worked beautifully, sometimes (Mac)AW hung or
crashed.  Definitely worth pursuing, but YMMV...

Hope this helps!
Dec