Re: Reading ProDOS text files from ClarisWorks on an iMac

["Jonathyn Bet'nct" <jonrelay@napanet.net>]

"Obsbedia2" <obsbedia2@aol.com> wrote in message
20010630053515.15967.00001648@ng-da1.aol.com">news:20010630053515.15967.00001648@ng-da1.aol.com...
> I recently completed a project in AW3, but wanted a better printout than
the
> ImageWriter II was providing.  I decided to use the ClarisWorks 4.0 that's
sort
> of on my iMac because I knew that I could use it's multiple columns
feature.  I
> saved the AW3 files as text files on a 1.4Meg disk and tried importing
them
> into a ClarisWork document.
>
> NO GO!
>
> The files were listed as unreadable because they were ProDOS.

Find a program called Drop*Attribute (the asterisk here is a bullet in the
actual program name). It may be on Info-Mac somewhere. Use it to change the
files' file types to TEXT and their creator codes to BOBO.




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