Re: Appleworks 4.0 arrives

[mcgovern@CS.ColoState.EDU (Mike McGovern)]

In article <2beunv$eg9@news.ysu.edu> ag471@yfn.ysu.edu (Eric S. Ford) writes:
>
>For those lucky few who have now received their upgrade, what's the good word
>on compatibility of data files both from earlier versions and backward?  I
>expect it will load all the old stuff but will the files from this version
>lose backward compatibility like some of the 3.o0 files did?
>
WP files- Identical to version 3.0
SS files- Can be read by older versions if you don't use new functions.
DB files- Substantially different.  Use Ascii files to transfer to old
          version.


The database has undergone the most changes.  It is now a relational
database (based on what I understand a relational database to be).
Get it!



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