Re: Apple II+ to Mac?

[beejay@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca (Basil Johnson)]

dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:

> In article <22pvnjINNiib@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca> rlee@unixg.ubc.ca (Reginald M Lee
> > > My parents own an Apple II+ with 48K and 5 1/4" disk drives.
> > > They would like to transfer a number of files to my Macintosh.  Most thei
> > >  files were created using the word processor, Apple Writer 1.1, whose
> > >  copyright date is1979.  They also have a program called Apple Writer Ext
> >  by Brillig Systems which allows for conversion of Applewriter documents
> > >  to plain, text files.  I am wondering, though, if there is an easier way
> > >  convert the files to text files.  The Applewriter files are on 70 or so 
> >  
> > 
> > The Applewriter files are already text files; no translation needed.
> 
> No, they aren't.  The original poster is talking about the old Apple
> II+ version of Apple Writer, which used Binary files.  AppleWriter
> didn't start using text files until version 2.0.  AppleWriter IIe then
> continued to use text files.
> 
> According to Don Lancaster's "AppleWriter Cookbook", the DOS 3.3
> version of AppleWriter IIe has a facility to convert old binary
> AppleWriter 1.x files into Text files.  The book doesn't go into any
> detail about the internal format of the files, so I don't know if they
> are actually just text files with a binary file type.  I'll see if I
> can find out...
> -- 
> David Empson                                                               
> dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz                                                
> Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand 

I think there was a program in an old issue of Call-Apple magazine 
that converted the AppleWriter binary file to TXT format.  My
copies are not readily at hand so I can't confirm it.
 
--
Basil Johnson