Re: Apple File Exchange problems

[lecates@bach.udel.edu (Roy LeCates)]

In article <1jla5iINN7se@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cb408@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jason Reames) writes:
>I'm STILL having problems converting AW files to Microsoft Works.
>My school lab has LC2's.  I've installed Apple File Exchange on the
>hard drive of the LC.  I've formatted a new disk on the GS and then dragged
>the AW files from the 5.25" floppy to the 3.5" disk, formatted with
>GS/OS from System 6.0.  
>Then I run Apple File Exchange.  I then put in the  3.5" disk.  I get the
>message that the Mac doesn't recognize the disk, and the question is asked
>if I want to format the disk or eject it.
>I tried formatting with different Sys Disks and re-installing Apple File 
>Exchange- I get the same message each time.  I've verified the 
>GS/OS formatted disk both with System 6 and with Copy2+ and there seem
>to be no errors.

Why don't you copy the files onto a HFS formatted disk?  Then you can
try to open the files directly in Works.  I'm not sure if Works has an
AW translator, but MacWrite II does have one.  Good luck!
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Roy M. LeCates       EE Undergraduate        lecates@bach.udel.edu
University of Delaware Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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