Re: mac to Apple II

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

In article <4fjmo7$ipj@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>,
John Bowling <johnlb@primenet.com> wrote:
> In article <chuckg-1002961152180001@dialup-5.kingsnet.com>,
> Chuck Garrett <chuckg@kingsnet.com> wrote:
> >I am trying to pass a text file from my mac to a friends GS. I save the
> >file as text on a prodos disk. When he tries to open it using Appleworks
> >4.0 or 3.0, he gets a prompt that there are insufficient resources. Can
> >anyone help?

[snip]

> There is another way.  If you output the file as TeachText, you
> *should* be able to read it into the Teach editor on the GS, or
> AppleWorks GS. 

Nope.  There is nothing on the IIgs which can read TeachText format
(it might be possible to read the text, but the style information will
not be accessible).

Teach (on the IIgs) can import MacWrite 5.0 files.  Other than that,
you are limited to plain text or AppleWorks WP files.  (Another option
might be a Rich Text Format text file, which can be imported by EGOed,
but this isn't much help if you don't have EGOed, and don't want to
buy the appropriate back issue of GS+ magazine to get it.)

AppleWorks GS can only import text and AppleWorks WP files.

> Also, Appleworks // requires that the file have an initial block that 
> is not text but special formatting data.  I don't believe that any mac
> software can create this block.

If the Mac software is creating an AppleWorks WP file, it must include
this information.  This data is not present for a text file.

> Because Teach is included with both mac and GS system software, this is
> probably the best format to transfer it in.

"TeachText" on the Mac and "Teach" on the IIgs are different programs
with similar functions, but totally different file formats.  Neither
program can read files created by the other (with formatting intact).


Another possible cause of the original problem: if the text file was
saved onto a ProDOS volume on the Mac using PC Exchange or the ProDOS
File System Extension, then it may have created a resource fork.  This
would prevent AppleWorks from reading the file.  Teach or AppleWorks
GS would still be able to read it.

If Apple File Exchange was used, there will not be a resource fork, so
it is just a memory problem.
-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz
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