Re: Appleworks 3.0 installation

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Charles reported:

>OK, now that it's done and working I can relate my experience.  AW3.0 is 
>working fine now, but there was some trouble with the disks.  The 3.5" 
>disk required has all the files and folders necessary to install, but 
>SOME of the files were corrupted.
>
>I finally figured that out after a COPY thru both System Utilities and 
>COPY II PLUS seemed to work fine but when I tried to copy files using 
>the Finder to my CFFA card I kept getting an I/O error.  I thought there 
>would be something during the copy to tell me files had issues, but I 
>guess not.
>
>I had to singly copy files and find the culprits, of which there were 
>many on the 3.5" diskette.  I got the files I needed from the 5.25" 
>disks that were also included with the package (thankfully). :)
>
>I'm not sure if the disks failed because of age or because someone 
>screwed them up.  

Congratulations!

3.5" disks are more finnicky than 5.25" disks, in my experience.

AW 3.0 is probably the last _huge_ distribution of Appleworks.
After 3.0, Claris got out of the Apple II business, and the later
versions, while nice enhancements, were never adopted widely
like the earlier ones.

Of course, if you're an Appleworks macro hacker, then nothing but
5.1 will do.  ;-)

-michael

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