Re: ?'s about a IIgs

[lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Tilghman Lesher)]

Nathan Mates (nathan@visi.com) wrote:
: In article <4v0efj$33n@login.freenet.columbus.oh.us>,
: Robert Schaefer <rschaefe@freenet.columbus.oh.us> wrote:
: >Hi, everyone.  I just picked up a gs (it was too good of a deal to let it
: >go by!), and now I have to do something with it.  It's an older one I think,
: >Woz Limited Edition, but I don't know the ROM version.  How do I find this
: >out, and what one do I want?

[snip]

: >Now, I have a sister in school, and they use macs for most of their
: >wordprocessing.  I was wondering, can a gs be taught how to read & write
: >mac formatted disks?  How 'bout some of the more popular mac wordprocessor
: >formats?  

[snip]

:    The Mac formats it can read (probably not coincidentally, ZERO of
: the Microsloth Word formats) are raw text, Teach, and with certain
: programs (Graphic Writer III's addon, probably some others) the 'Rich
: Text Format' (RTF).

Just a note:  the formats for Teach are different for the Mac and for
the iigs.  Unless you have some custom software, you probably won't be
able to read the Mac's Teach file on the iigs.

Tilghman