Re: Apple -> Macintosh conversion info needed

[dsblack@iastate.edu (Vilkata TDK)]

In <1odf9oINN1tc@phakt.usc.edu> kondaman@usc.edu (John Kondamani) writes:

>Hi, all:

>A friend of mine, a dentist, has a customer tracking system on an old
>Apple computer [Macworks? Apple works?]. He wants to know how he can
>convert all those old files and data into the new Mac format. [Of
>course, he is willing to purchase a new Macintosh].

>Is such a conversion possible? How about customized applications? Can
>the object code be recompiled on the new Macs? Or what about data in
>old no-longer-supported applications?

Oh, yeah.  No problem.  Sounds like Appleworks to me...
Anyway, there are several programs that will convert Appleworks to Mac.
There is one called Symantec (sp?) Greatworks that is supposed to be able
to do this, but note that we couldn't get it to inport some files (either
spreadsheet or data base--don't remember which).  However, ClarisWorks _will_
import the files we had trouble with on others.  Many other programs will 
import Appleworks, especially the word processor, but I would probably 
recommend ClarisWorks.  (Only problem is most of these programs are rather
expensive...)

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