Re: Appleworks problems

[gareth@opus.freenet.vancouver.bc.ca (Gareth Jones)]

slandry@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu wrote:

: 	May I borrow this newsgroup a while for the purpose for which it 
: was intended? You can all go back to quarreling when I finish. Thanks so 
: much.

Please do.

: 	I am working with both Appleworks V and Appleworks GS. They are 
: loaded on to separate subdirectories on the hard disk, and I shouldn't 
: think they would interfere with each other, but I am getting some 
: bizarre problems. Let me preface this by saying that we are working with 
: two large Wordprocessing files (280, and 256 k respectively). The files 
: will only erratically load into Appleworks 5. What usually happens, is 
: that the file begins to load; the machine then beeps and code like this 
: comes up on the screen:

:  00/Cf8B:95   40   sta 40,x
:  A=00FF  X=001B  Y=0000  S=01F1 D=0000  P=FS
:  B=00  K=00  M=00  Q=9E  L=0  m=1  x=1  e=1

: after which the machine locks up and must be rebooted. Does the length of 
: the file affect this? It doesn't seem to happen with  short files.( I've 
: got 6 megs of onboard RAM )  

I use AppleWrks 3 a and AWGS. No, they don't interfere with each other. 
But when AW crashes like that, I can usually recover just by pressing 
control-reset, rather than rebooting.

: 	I've tried loading these same files into Appleworks GS. Here the 
: little watch appears for a few seconds, to be replaced by the beach ball 
: and this seems to be there permanently. I have let it run for an hour 
: and twenty minutes with no final opening of the file.

Bummer. I'm wondering if the problem might be special codes in AppleWorks 
5 files that AWGS doesn't know about. (It stopped with AW 3.0). If that's 
the case then you might want to invest $10 U.S. in a shareware program 
called Change-A-File which, among its other excellences, can change AW 4 
and 5 files into AW 2 files. 

I'd also try Change-a-File's or File-A-Trix's "View" option to see if the 
file looks all right.

: 	I took the files to my office and loaded them into 
Clarisworks 
: and converted them to Text files and returned them to the GS. Still no 
: luck. Once in a great while they will load; usually no.

Be careful here: although ClarisWorks will happily create text and AW 
files, it will save them on a ProDOS disk with a resource fork that won't 
screw up AWGS but _will_ prevent AW from loading the file. You either 
have to use a utility to delete the resource fork (there are a couple I 
know), or save the file on a Mac-format disk and use HFS.Link or a2fx to 
transfer just the data fork.

: 	I did notice that even on the Power Mac these files took an 
: almighty long time to load. If they took 10 minutes to load into a 60 
: megahertz Mac, how long would they take on a 7 megahertz GS? Should I 
: just  let the beach ball  roll all night long? 

: 	Any insights into these two problems will be greatly 
: appreciated. My wife prefers to work with Appleworks 5, but the files must 
: be  transfered to GSOS for printing on the laser printer. Right now we 
: are stuck.  

Why do you need to transfer to GS/OS to print on a laser printer? If you 
have an HP compatible, AppleWorks should have a driver. If you have a 
PostScript printer attached by an AppleTalk network, I find that the 
following works: download the ImageWriter Emulator (an option in the 
Laser Printer's Control Panel). Launch AppleWorks. Set it up for a 
Serial Printer card in slot 7 (the slot that controls AppleTalk) and an 
ImageWriter II printer. I call this printer IWEM. Now give a print 
command, select IWEM as the printer, and it prints in the Courier font. 
To select a very nice-looking Times 12 font, use the "Proportional 2" 
printer option in your document. "Proportional 1" gives Times 10.

I hope this opens up a few options to explore. I wonder what 
GraphicWriter or ShadowWrite would do with your file?

-Gareth