Re: Make Smaller

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

Mitchell Spector (spector@vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:
: In article lacoss@cello.gina.calstate.edu (LA County Outdoor Science School) 
: writes...
: > 
: >I've never had any problems loading any AW 3.0 file into AW 4 or 5.  They 
: >should load for you just fine. 

: 	The reverse doesn't apply, try importing AppleWorks 3.0 database files
: into AppleWorks 4.x/5.x (and save), and then back into AppleWorks 3.0 again. 
: What does one do if they wish to exchange their data files with users of older
: version of AppleWorks? 

: 	Is there a utility to convert the DB files back into version 3.0 
: format? If so I'd upgrade to version 5.0.

: >Greg
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: >Los Angeles County Outdoor Science School - Colby Ranch site
: >Internet email: lacoss@cello.gina.calstate.edu       Phone: (818)792-0160

: Mitchell Spector
: m_spect@vega.concordia.ca / spector@vax2.concordia.ca

I'm aware that AppleWorks 5 doesn't support export and import of DIF 
files. Is this also true of version 4?

Even if you can't use DIF, you can export text files from late-version 
AppleWorks and import it into version 3.

-Gareth