Re: AppleWorks --> Mac

[cwatson@cam.org (Sean McBride)]

In article <paulcol-0808961227090001@ip-pdx09-21.teleport.com>,
paulcol@teleport.com (Paul V. Colvin) wrote:

>What is the best way to get AppleWorks  or Student Writing and Publishing
>Center (by Learning Company) files onto Macs so they can be edited and
>printed?  
>
>My school has about 20 IIe's that we want to use for word processing
>(among other things). We will be getting about the same number of Macs in
>this year. We have 2 GS's, but they are pretty much stock models with very
>little RAM.
>
>Would a IIe emulator on our Macs do any good? Are you able to take a saved
>file from a 5 1/4" disk and transfer it over to a Mac with this setup? If
>so, what is the best (i.e. easiest) emulator? And who has them?  

An emulator would work but the easiest way is to use your IIgs to put all
the Appleworks files onto a 3.5 inch diskette, then to take that disk to
your Mac and copy the files to the Mac's HD... Once there, just use
ClarisWorks to open the AppleWorks files...

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