Re: Binary files

[oaaland@aol.com (O Aaland)]

Rich Hare <rhare@mich.com> writes:

>
>I'm helping someone convert some old Applewriter text files to MSDOS.	
>It turns out that Applewriter stored them as binary files, not ASCII.
>I originally thought that "UtilityWorks" would import binary files, but
>it turns out it doesn't.
>
>I've got a couple of ideas about how to get them to ASCII (including
>importing them to Magic Window, which will let me write them out as text
>files) but before I "reinvent the wheel", does anybody here have a
>suggestion on how to convert the files from binary to ASCII?
>
>The rest of the process is easy for me.
>
>     () ()
>Rich ('-')
>


I use AppleWorks. Load them into the word processor as new files from an
ASCII text file.  Name them what you want and then use the print to disk
option to print them to the disk as ASCII files.