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Re: Appleworks-> Mac
Randy Shackelford (shack@crash.cts.com) wrote:
> In article <l655721@pro-sol.cts.com>, Tom Kelly <tomk@pro-sol.cts.com> wrote:
> >In <coco-0512942003370001@aragorn182.acns.nwu.edu>
> >coco@nwu.edu (Colin D. Cook) writes:
> >>Anyone know of a Mac program to convert Appleworks files into a Mac
> >>readable format?
> >If you still have the Apple and AppleWorks, PRINT the files to a text file
> >and then copy them to a Mac (HFS) disk using a Apple II gs.
> >I am not sure if a Mac can read a ProDos disk.
> >I doubt it.
> Of course a Mac can read ProDOS disks. Just install PC exchange under OS 7.5
> or the ProDOS file system extension under earlier versions.
> Other ways of transferring the files include the HFS way (IIgs only) or using
> localtalk and file sharing.
> If you're using Claris software or another kind that uses Claris' XTND file
> translators, you can directly import Appleworks files with formatting intact.
> This is a neat thing - I've even seen an XTND on the net to import BASIC
> programs in their tokenized form into formatted listings in word processors.
> If you're not using an XTND capable program, it is left up to the app to do
> the conversion. Some do and some don't. If not then the TXT file method is
> an option, but there goes your formatting.
The Best Way I've found so far is the Mac program MACLink Plus. It has
translators for hundreds of MAC, and PC programs, and, incidently, Appleworks
up through version 3.0. Not just the WP module by the way, but SS and DB as
well. At work, I cna stick a prodos disk into my mac, open up MS Word,
load the appleworks WP file straight from the disk, work on
the file, and SAVE AS: an Appleworks file back on the appleworks disk. It
can't get any simpler than that.
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