Re: Convert Appleworks 3.0 Files to MS-DOS

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

"Tim Haynes" <timhaynes@no.spam.please.alumni.uwaterloo.ca> wrote in message
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> "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
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> 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/
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> Good luck - let us know if you succeed.
> Tim

By the way, the drop-text-15.hqx utility on
http://mirrors.xmission.com/info-mac/cmp/
 apprently lets you do batch conversions of Appleworks to text, also.

Tim