Re: AppleWorks emulator for MS-DOS?

[munz@wordperfect.com (Mark Munz)]

In article <3vn3h8$8bf@netaxs.com>, mike@cpcn.com (RAINMAKER) wrote:

> I don't remember the package you refer to, but I do know what does work.
> Since both appleworks and m/s works were authored by the same person,
> they are VERY compatable.  You'll need crossworks to move files from the
> apple to the dos machine and back. It does work.
> BTW...Appleworks, MS Works for DOS and MS works for MAC are all
> compatible for moving from one to the other. (up to versions 3.0 of each
> package...haven't tried aw5.0 to ms works yet).
> Later.

That's only partially true. The original version of MS Works for Macintosh
was written off the same code-base as AppleWorks, that was a long time ago
-- and a lot has changed in almost 10 years.

MSWorks 4.0 Mac will read AW3.0 files, but I don't think it handles the
newer ones. I don't know about MS Works for DOS.

Mark Munz