Re: New AppleWorks vs Classic AppleWorks

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In article <mfumu-DB7D5F.07474005032003@news.alphalink.com.au>, Bill
Robbins <mfumu@alphalink.com.au> wrote:

> In article 
> <declan_macleoid-7E740E.22485803032003@news-server.nc.rr.com>,
>  Declan MacLeod <declan_macleoid@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > My memory is failing me on this.  I've created a spreadsheet in 
> > AppleWorks 6.2.4 under OS X and saved it as a tab-delineated text file.  
> > I've transferred it to my IIgs hard disk.  Is there a way to import it 
> > into the spreadsheet module of Classic Appleworks (v5.0)?
> 
> (Mac) Appleworks 6 will allow you to save a spreadsheet in ASCII format.  
> This is a TAB delimited file (TABs between fields, RETURNs at the end of 
> each record).  Now it's been quite a while since I have used AppleWorks 
> 5 (Classic), but I'm quite sure it will allow you to import such a file 
> as a spreadsheet, using the TAB/RETURN delimiting to sort the file 
> properly.  Of course you WILL loose any fancy features, but this would 
> probably happen no matter what conversion scheme you used.
It works with ClarisWorks 4 and AppleWorks 3.0. ALso, you might wnat to
see if the DIF format is available on AW6. It will let you retain a bit
more of the features than ASCII will.

Unfortunetly, there is one final problem. Versions of the Mac OS higher
than 7 have this compulsive need to attatch empty resource forks to any
file they encounter. Even if you save the file directly to a ProDOS disk.
So, you will need to use something to strip the resource forks. Saving to
a Macintosh disk and running it through A2FX or HFSLink works quite well,
but newer Macintoshes don't even have disk drives.