Re: PRODOS TO MSDOS

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <31182d32.0@news.sisna.com>, Jerry Sisler <barjs@sisna.com> wrote:
>I need a program, or the knowledge of how, to change files created on
>Appleworks on the Apple 2e, to an ascii file, so they can be read by
>an msdos program. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

   Apple II and MS-DOS 5.25" disk formats are so different to be
almost irreconcilable (and unreadable by the other) unless you have
some rather rare hardware. The best solution is to use Appleworks to
open the files, and when 'Printing' them, save them to a text (ascii)
file. Then, with a null modem or other serial link between an Apple II
and a PC, you can send the ascii files between them.

   If you've got access to an Apple //e with a 'PC Transporter' card,
you can connect up an IBM PC 5.25" drive and write the ascii files
that you printed from within Appleworks, but those aren't as common.

   There used to be a PC program, "Crossworks", that could read early
versions of Appleworks files, but it's been out of print for a long
time, and not compatible with recent (definitely 3.0 and up, maybe
also 2.0) versions of Appleworks.

Nathan Mates
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