Re: AppleWorks emulator for MS-DOS?

[wernst@deltanet.com (Warren 'Llama' Ernst)]

munz@wordperfect.com (Mark Munz) wrote:

>In article <40ernb$o42@agate.berkeley.edu>, surge@uclink.berkeley.edu
>(Sergio Cesar Mairena) wrote:
>> 2) Is there a more powerful spreadsheet program that will allow him to
>> handle larger files? 

>Again, I believe the amount of memory is your biggest issue. AppleWorks
>spreadsheets can handle 9999 rows by 127 columns (assuming you have more
>than 256k of memory). Again, this refers to AW 3.x.

>> 3) Is there any way that he can convert the Apple //e Appleworks files
>> into an MS Excel (Mac) compatible format? 

>I don't remember if Excel supports the DIF format (which AppleWorks can
>export too). The only way I know to do this is to read it into MSWorks
>(which supports AppleWorks spreadsheets) and then save it as either Excel
>or SYLK.

ClarisWorks also supports DIF files, if I remember correctly. If you
want to convert Spreadsheets, FileMaker Pro will support database DIFs
too.

Virtually,
Warr
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