Help transferring files?

[Vicky Wilks <vicky@jessica.logica.co.uk>]

Hi all. Apologies if this isn't the most appropriate one for this 
posting, but it is definitely the only choice from the ones we get 
on our news server here!

Basically the problem is that my Dad has an old (approx. 11 years he 
thinks) Apple IIe at work, with some data files on it that are "in some 
sort of Pascal format". I'm not sure what he means by this last - are 
Pascal-written files inherently different from plain text?

Anyway, the people at his work now want the files transferred to their PC 
system, in some sort of DOS-readable ASCII format. He got the files onto 
a 5.25" floppy and sent them off to one of these Data Access people to be 
converted into the required form. Unfortunately this guy "ignored" any 
blank fields in the file so for example if there were meant to be 8 
fields on a line, but only 5 of them had data in, as in eg

data1 <blank> data3 <blank> <blank> data6 data7 data8

he gave them a line of the form

data1 data3 data6 data7 data8 <blank> <blank> <blank>

which isn't much use for obvious reasons!

They sent it back to him when they realised, but he claimed they hadn't 
specified that in their request, so therefore he had done what they 
asked, and anyway he couldn't do it again "properly" because it wasn't 
possible.

So, leaving aside nasty comments about this guy, how does he go about 
transferring the files himself? He still has the original Apple IIe files 
on the computer fortunately....

Thanks in advance for any help you can give,

Vicky Wilks

vicky@jessica.logica.co.uk
phone : +44 (0) 1223 - 366 343
fax : +44 (0) 1223 - 251 001