Re: Disk conversion Apple IIc - Mac

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <34B4F1B7.10B3@sirius.com>, Nigel French  <nigel@sirius.com> wrote:
>I have 6 5 1/4 diskettes with text files created on an Apple IIc with
>Quark Word Juggler c.1987. Does anyone have any suggestions for how I
>can convert them to a format recognizable on my Mac?

   Null modem them over. It's simpler than Appletalk (which you can't
ever get on a //c, thanks to the requirement of certain special serial
hardware), and it *works*. With a null modem cable, you can 'print'
them out from the //c to the Mac and a simple text capture in any
terminal program will save them to disk. That'll lose formatting, but
simple and fast. I know of no PC/Mac programs that'll read Quark files
directly, so unless you want to write one yourself, you'll have to
live with losing formatting.

Nathan Mates

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