Re: 8-bit Appleworks files

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

"George Randall" <gar@runbox.com> wrote in message
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> 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

What about loading Appleworks on an emulator?  You
could use Fishwings to load the file onto a disk image
and then open it on Appleworks on the PC.  I wonder
if you could then cut and paste it over to a PC app then.

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