RE: In search of useful movement of AWGS files to Mac

[smtc201@uoft02.utoledo.edu]

In Article <1995Mar30.044021.25634@chemabs.uucp>
lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) writes:
>
>My father-in-law is moving from a Apple IIgs to a newly purchased Mac.
>He needs to get some AppleWorks GS databases (and perhaps some spreadsheets)
>into the Mac package he is using (ClarisWorks, which came with his Performa).
>
>Is there any software out there that would be helpful for him?  He
>says that word processing files work okay, but the database files fail
>with an 'unable to identify creator resource' error msg.

When I moved from AWGS to ClarisWorks, I took my AWGS databases with me by 
saving them as ASCII text files, and I printed out a copy of a database record 
that contains all fields. Then I transfered them the files to Mac disks (using 
the IIgs of course). Then I think I created the same fields in ClarisWorks and
inserted the text file into the database (it was about 3 years ago that I had 
to do this, so I don't quite remember anymore). It's not perfect and expect 
some trial and error, but it should work. I transfered a database of 80 some 
hearing impaired kids with about 3 fields successfully.

Good luck!

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