Re: AppleWorks file xfer //e-->Mac?

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <4gfvlm$hl5@drivel.ics.uci.edu>,
Leif Strand <lstrand@ics.uci.edu> wrote:
>
> Try changing the Mac creator to "pdos" and the Mac file type to:
> 
>   $7019xxxx for an AppleWorks Data Base file,
>   $701Axxxx for an AppleWorks Word Processor file, or
>   $701Bxxxx for an AppleWorks Spreadsheet file.
> 
> ($70 is a lowercase 'p', but $19, $1A, and $1B are not printable
> characters, so I hope RezEdit or whatever you are using supports
> non-ASCII input of these values.)  The "xxxxx" bytes can be anything.
> 
> This is the ProDOS-to-Mac file type translation for which ClarisWorks
> is probably looking.  It was used in the past by the Apple File
> Exchange, and is (presumably) still used today by the PC Exchange.

This is the newer version of the mapping mechanism, which allows
encoding of the auxiliary type.  There was also an older form, which
only encodes the file type, but it also uses ASCII only.  Set the file
type to '19  ', '1A  ' or '1B  ' (two hexadecimal digits followed by
two spaces).  Apple File Exchange and the HFS FST on the IIgs both
support these.

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