Re: PC program to read 2e disks?

[385-10@bsbox.com (Jedi Squire #385 @10)]

R 34 11/29 03:52 Usenet ->10
RE: PC program to read 2e disks?

 On Mon, Nov. 27, 1995, Markdm said this: 

MA friend wants to convert a bunch of writing she did in Years Past on

Man Apple 2e. She used Apple Works and Apple Writer.

MAny suggestions for a PC program or a service bureau that can convert

Mthese into some usable PC format? Right now she's using Word Perfect

M5.0.





 
 
    WordPerfect for the Apple IIgs contains a separate utility program 
specifically for converting AppleWriter, AppleWorks, and other Apple II word 
processor files into WordPerfect IIgs format.  If you can borrow a copy and 
use it, the files can then be transferred from ProDOS to MS-DOS via an Applied 
Engineering PC Transporter's utility for crossing the barrier, or between the 
two machines via a nul modem cable, or by uploading the files to a cooperative 
BBS from the Apple, then downloading them with the PC.
 
    As WordPerfect files maintain their file structure across platforms, the 
files can then be imported into WordPerfect for DOS 5.0; please note, however 
that WordPerfect/DOS will think the files are WordPerfect/DOS v.4.2 files, so 
you will have to set your WordPerfect import filter accordingly.


    Another method would be to buy a copy of CrossWorks, which directly 
converts AppleWriter and AppleWorks files into WordPerfect/DOS files while 
transferring them between the two machines.  The box includes both ProDOS and 
MS-DOS conversion software, and a null modem cable with all three kinds of 
Apple plugs at one end and both kinds of PC plugs at the other for connecting 
the two machines.  Simple and elegant, really, and preferable to the method I 
mentioned above, which only happens to be the one I use because I have both 
WordPerfect for the IIgs and a PC Transporter.
 
    Good luck.