Re: Converting Appleworks 4.0 database file

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Ed MacNeil <macneil@nh.ultranet.com> writes:
>
>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.
>
>Does anyone have a clever idea that would help us translate this file?
>
>Ed Mac Neil
>Ancient Aviator
>North Hampton, NH , USA


MacLinkPlus version 10.0 probably only supports AppleWorks Data Baser files up
through version 3.0. There were major changes in the Data Base starting with
Appleworks 4. 

The way to transfer the files is to use Appleworks 4 to print the file to disk
as a text (ASCII) file. Usually you can use the first choice (Tabs between
catagories, Returns between records) as the way the file should be defined.
Open a new Clarisworks 5.0 data base file with the number of catagories as the
AppleWorks file has and the import the file into your new data base.