Re: AppleWorks file xfer //e-->Mac?

[lstrand@clyde.ics.uci.edu (Leif Strand)]

In article <4gefge$n4a@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us>,
Scott Austin <scaustin@freenet.columbus.oh.us> wrote:
>
>I have tried making a null modem connection between the SSC in my Apple
>//e and the modem port on my LCIII and I transferred a test file, but I
>couldn't open it because it had the wrong creator code.   Does anyone know
>the code to make ClarisWorks think that these transferred files came from
>AppleWorks?

Try changing the Mac creator to "pdos" and the Mac file type to:

  $7019xxxx for an AppleWorks Data Base file,
  $701Axxxx for an AppleWorks Word Processor file, or
  $701Bxxxx for an AppleWorks Spreadsheet file.

($70 is a lowercase 'p', but $19, $1A, and $1B are not printable
characters, so I hope RezEdit or whatever you are using supports
non-ASCII input of these values.)  The "xxxxx" bytes can be anything.

This is the ProDOS-to-Mac file type translation for which ClarisWorks
is probably looking.  It was used in the past by the Apple File
Exchange, and is (presumably) still used today by the PC Exchange.

--Leif