Re: Apple II+ to Mac?

[dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <22pvnjINNiib@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca> rlee@unixg.ubc.ca (Reginald M Lee) writes:
> > 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 their
> >  files were created using the word processor, Apple Writer 1.1, whose
> >  copyright date is1979.  They also have a program called Apple Writer Extended
>  by Brillig Systems which allows for conversion of Applewriter documents
> >  to plain, text files.  I am wondering, though, if there is an easier way to
> >  convert the files to text files.  The Applewriter files are on 70 or so flopp
>  
> 
> 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...
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David Empson                                                               
dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz                                                
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