Re: Convertin' Appleworks Files to the big ol' PC

[gtolar@concentric.net (Glynne Tolar)]

In article <cwilliamson.11.000ADD21@news.cpcnet.com>, cwilliamson@news.cpcnet.com (C Williamson) wrote:
>Hey all!
>
>Well, it's time for me to convert one of my HUGE Appleworks 3.0 databases so 
>that I can use it with the hulking, evil Pentium 200 sitting beside my GS. Is 
>there any shareware stuff out there that can do this conversion? It doesn't 
>really matter what it converts into, as long as Microsoft (eew!) Works can 
>read it.

This is how I'd do it:

1) Print the AppleWorks database to a textfile, comma delimited.
2) Send it to the PC via null modem connection.
3) Load it into your PC database program and make what changes are needed.

It really is that simple.  Although I've not tried it yet myself.  Many 
database programs will load in text files with some delimiter between fields.

Let us know how it works.