Re: Convert Appleworks 3.0 Files to MS-DOS

["Tim Haynes" <timhaynes@no.spam.please.alumni.uwaterloo.ca>]

"Gregory Weston" <gwestonREMOVE@CAPSattbi.com> wrote in message
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> In article <9791a08.0409290858.61bdc5be@posting.google.com>,
>  mlgstudios@yahoo.com (mlgstudios) wrote:
>
> > I have a IIGS with about 150 word processor files that I want to
> > convert to Text, or even better some version of MS Works or MS Word.
> > I have a Mac SE that will act as the intermediate computer, copying
> > files off the IIGS formatted disks and dropping them on the PC
> > formatted disks.
> >
> > I am aware that you can print a file to ASCII from Appleworks;
> > however, this is very very tedious considering the number of files I
> > need to convert.  I'm hoping that some program out there can do a
> > batch convert or something.
>
>
> A long time ago - like in the era that SE was new - there was a program
> called Apple File Exchange. It was mostly used to copy data to and from
> file systems that the Mac didn't support directly, but also had a
> plug-in document conversion system. I know I saw AppleWorks converters.
> Check at the info-mac archives, maybe.
>
> G

Good advice.  I'm sure AFE is very easy to find, but the Appleworks --> MS
Works translator may not be.  I found it here:
http://mirrors.xmission.com/info-mac/cmp/

Good luck - let us know if you succeed.
Tim