Re: Help:Converting Appleworks files to PC compatible files?

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Sat, 07 Mar 1998 11:55:50 GMT, jims@mail.mpx.com.au wrote:

>I could be pissing into the wind here, but what are my chances of
>converting some IIe Appleworks files (database) into PC compatible
>files?
>
>I can recall, before I mothballed the IIe, I saved the files as text
>files and then tried opening them on a PC with no luck.With access to
>sharper  minds than mine out there on the Net , are there any
>suggestions?

This is exactly what you want to do.  Use Appleworks to save the
databases to disk as text files and make sure it is set to have tabs
between fields and carriage returns between records.

Transfer those tab-delimited text files to you PC and tell the
software on your PC to open/load/import/whatever a tab-delimited text
file.  Some PC programs will use the term delimited file and give you
a choice of characters to use as the delimiter.  Just make sure you
use tab as the delimiter.

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