Re:AW info needed

[Tom Zuchowski <tjz@interramp.com>]

In article 4mm8mh$kfh@freenet-news.carleton.ca,
	bd330@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Lionel Standing) said:

>Could anyone indicate what is the HIGHEST version of AppleWorks
>that will run on the IIe, please? 
>
>Also, is there any big advantage in moving up from v2.1 to v.3
>or v5 (assuming these will run on the IIe...)?
>
>Also, is there any way of turning an AW wordprocessor file
>back into an ASCII file?

All versions of Appleworks will run on an enhanced IIe with sufficient memory.  AW3 and AW4 will work on a 128K machine, but the desktop is teeny, and either will give you carpal tunnel syndrome from all the disk swapping if you don't have a 3.5 drive.

My recommendation is to get =any= version you can get your hands on from AW3 to 5, as they all are light years better than AW 2.1.!!  You don't know what ease-of=use features you are missing right now!  For best results, you'll want at least a 512K RAM card, and AW4 and AW5 benefit hugely from a small hard drive or a pair of 3.5 drives.

I don't know about AW 2.1, but all the later versions have a "print to disk" feature in the print menu.

TomZ