Re: Converting Appleworks 4.0 database file

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Ed MacNeil <macneil@nh.ultranet.com> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> 
> My wife is a Christian Educator.  Our church uses an Apple //e as well
> as several Macs.  She currently has an Appleworks 4 database file on the
> Apple// that she wishes to migrate onto one of the Macs running
> Clarisworks 5.0.  The problem seems to be that the Appleworks 4 format
> is not supported by MacLinkPlus version 10.0.

The AppleWorks 4.x and 5.x database format isn't supported by any other
program, though it has been documented so in theory it could be
supported.

The easiest solution is to export the data from AppleWorks in a format
that can be dealt with by another program.  This will retain all the
data, but lose reports, formatting, file references, calculations, etc.

You can export data from the AppleWorks Database by printing the
database to a "Text (ASCII) File on Disk".  There are three sub-options:
pick the "Tab and Return" delimited variant.

The resulting file then needs to be copied over to a Mac, and can be
imported directly into a database program such as FileMaker Pro or the
ClarisWorks/AppleWorks database module.

-- 
David Empson
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