SOLVED: Convert AppleWriter 1.0 binary files to text files

["Bryan Villados" <news003@macgeek.org>]

"Bryan Villados" <news003@macgeek.org> wrote in message
news:8BuKa.124901$x67.5450534@twister.socal.rr.com...
> Hey, guys!
>
> I have a friend that came across two diskettes that have data he'd like to
> convert to Windows/Notepad format. All the data was created using
AppleWorks
> 1.0.
>
> Reading on the web, AppleWriter 1.x stored the files at binary files,
which
> is accurate with what I have (AppleWriter 2.0 started storing files as
text
> files). Fortunately, one of the disks has AppleWriter 1.0 on it, and I'm
> able to run the program and read the files.
>
> I've already converted the data disks to .DSK format, and I'm able to read
> the disk images under Windows in CiderPress. When I view any of the
"TEXT."
> files (AppleWriter 1.x appended TEXT. to the beginning of each filename),
I
> see garbage (I'm assuming the cause is by the text not being in the same
> ASCII range that Windows normally use).
>
> Are there any processes I could use to convert these binary files to text
> files? I read that AppleWriter 2.0 could possibly convert them, but I
don't
> have a copy of version 2.0.

Got it figured out! I dug around in my massive disk collections, and found
Applewriter 2.0. Used the Applewriter 1.1 converter, ADT'd the disk to
Windows, then extracted the files from the disk image with CiderPress. Came
out great!

Thanks for everyone's recommendations!

--- Bryan