Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS

[ericb@pobox.com (Eric Bennett)]

In article <19961106222144400093@dempson.actrix.gen.nz>
dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:

> ClarisWorks can only import AppleWorks GS Word Processor files, not
> database, spreadsheet, page layout or graphics.

ClarisWorks opens AppleWorks GS database and spreadsheet files.  I
haven't tried the others, however.
 
> [For that matter, no software other than AppleWorks GS itself is able to
> read these files.  They were never documented, Claris itself has no
> idea, and at least two teams of IIgs experts were not even able to get
> AppleWorks GS to assemble again,

Not documented?  Claris *wrote* AppleWorks GS.  They should--and
do--know how to implement translation of those formats in ClarisWorks.


-Eric Bennett (ericb@psu.edu; http://emb121.rh.psu.edu)

One processor per person is not enough.
-Be, Inc.  (http://www.be.com)