Re: Transfer Apple IIe files to PC?

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <66vhnt$bpr$1@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Raymond Chi  <chiry@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>Hi, I have some apple IIe files on apple 5.25" disks. It is mostly in
>Apple work format I think, althought some of it might be other word
>processors...
>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.

   Your best bet is to get a serial line between the //e and a PC and
use either a comm program on both ends or 'print' over the serial line
to a PC term program that's capturing text to a file. 

>Although I was quite an apple ii expert at the time, I have forgotten
>pretty much everything. are apple works files in ascii format?

   Nope, not straight ascii format by any stretch of the imagination.
There's a large binary header, and all the formatting codes, line
breaks, etc are binary codes interspersed with the actual text. Thus,
it's a binary file. If you want to write something to pull the
formatting codes from an Appleworks Word Processor (v3.0 or less),
drop by http://www.visi.com/~nathan/a2/tn/ftn/1a-xxxx.html

Nathan Mates


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