Re: AppleWorks database to plain text?

[ddkilzer@iastate.edu (David D Kilzer)]

>kls0@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kent Squires ) writes:

>>>Anyone have some C code for translating appleworks database into some kind
>>>of plain text format?  Thanks!

>>Doesn't AppleWorks have the capability of doing this?

vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry) writes:

>Yeah, but it's not so good because it doesn't output tabs, it may truncate
>long fields... The output is not intended to be used with some other
>program. but viewed or printed.

Didn't they change this in AW3.0?  I know they improved the output of
text files from the word processor, but they didn't for the database?
In any case, you could copy the entire database file to a new word
processor document and print IT out with tabs left in the file in
AppleWorks 3.0.

Dave
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