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Re: Transfer Apple IIe files to PC?
On 14 Dec 1997 02:53:49 GMT, Raymond Chi
<chiry@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
...
>I don't have access to a apple iie, I could borrow my friend's apple
>iie, but how do I actually transfer the file? Those files are from my
>high school era and I'd like to save it to the PC.
>
>Although I was quite an apple ii expert at the time, I have forgotten
>pretty much everything. are apple works files in ascii format?
Yes, with the addition of margins, tabs, bold,. underline, et
al.--these special features will show up as extraneous bits of text.
>will
>any program on the pc be able to read it if I transfer it? Are there
>differences in text file format between the apple and pc?
Yeah. The "carriage return" and "line feed" characters are used
differently, so paragraphs will appear incorrectly. Nothing that
can't be fixed with a little time, though...
>one way that I can think of, is get my friend's apple ii, get the
>utility that makes disk images (I played around with apple ii emulator
>couple of month ago), transfer the image to pc, and use some utility
>to extract the files out of those image files...
Although I once heard of a file extractor for use on ProDOS images
(that's what you'd need to get AppleWorks files out of a disk image
file), I don't think it ever came out. You could, though, use an
emulator & (an image of) System Utilities, Copy ][+, etc. to convert
from ProDOS <-> DOS 3.3, and then use ViewDisk or Extract to get the
DOS 3.3 files outta the image.
I'd just get a terminal program and serial card for the borrowed Apple
//, and use a null-modem cable to xfer the files--the terminal program
may be able to fix the "carriage return"/"line feed" problem for you.
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