Re: In search of useful movement of AWGS files to Mac

[kevin_jundt@qm.claris.com (Kevin Jundt)]

In article <1995Mar30.044021.25634@chemabs.uucp>, lvirden@cas.org wrote:

> My father-in-law is moving from a Apple IIgs to a newly purchased Mac.
> He needs to get some AppleWorks GS databases (and perhaps some spreadsheets)
> into the Mac package he is using (ClarisWorks, which came with his Performa).
> 
> Is there any software out there that would be helpful for him?  He
> says that word processing files work okay, but the database files fail
> with an 'unable to identify creator resource' error msg.

ClarisWorks has translators for AppleWorks 3.0 but not specifically for
AWGS.  The two products are very different.  There is generally not a
problem with word processing or spreadsheet documents but the file format
for databases between the two are vastly different.  

In a nutshell, what you'll have to tell your father-in-law is to save his
database documents as a DIF or text file from AWGS BEFORE he transfers it
over to the Mac.  These are standard exchange formats that should allow
him to import his data into most database products including ClarisWorks.

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