Re: apple writer to apple works..?

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <31hnas$oav@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>,
Greg Forschler <ey273@cleveland.Freenet.Edu> wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know if there's a way to transfer Apple Writer
> files to Apple Works?

It is easy if you're talking about the ProDOS version of AppleWriter,
and you don't mind losing any embedded control characters - just tell
AppleWorks to "Add Files to Desktop", "Make a new file for the Word
Processor", "From a Text (ASCII) file", and choose the appropriate file.

(With AppleWorks 4, you can just add files "from the current
directory" and it will list AppleWriter files as text files.)

You will have to manually convert any dot commands into corresponding
AppleWorks commands (assuming there is an equivalent - there is
nothing like WPL, for example).


For older versions of AppleWriter, the process is a little more
complicated.  AppleWriter 2.0 for the II+ (not to be confused with
AppleWriter II 2.0, which is ProDOS-based and requires a IIe/IIc) and
the original AppleWriter IIe are DOS 3.3 based, and save their
documents as text files.  You can use any standard file conversion
utility to convert these to ProDOS text files, then import them as
above.  Examples: System Utilities, CONVERT, Chameleon, Copy II+.

Earlier versions of AppleWriter for the II+ save their files in a
proprietary binary format.  To convert these, you will need the DOS
3.3 version of AppleWriter IIe, which can read AppleWriter 1.0 files,
then save them as AppleWriter IIe text files (which can be converted
as before).
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David Empson
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