Converting Appleworks Files
julian814
Appleworks 3.0 to something a more modern computer could use? Thanks.
Ralph Glatt
Scott Alfter
julian814 <juli...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Just out of curiosity, is there any way to convert files from
>Appleworks 3.0 to something a more modern computer could use? Thanks.
Inside AppleWorks, you could save as text (WP) or DIF (SS/DB) and import
that into something else. If you don't have something that can run
AppleWorks, you might try filtering a word-processor file through strings (a
text filter that's part of Cygwin, Linux, and Mac OS X) and import that.
The formatting will most likely be hosed, but if you're lucky, it won't be
too far gone.
IIRC, DIF won't preserve formulas in spreadsheets. If A1 contains 1, A2
contains 2, and A3 contains the formula A1+A2, the DIF copy of a spreadsheet
will store 3 where A3 is supposed to go.
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Mark Percival
> Just out of curiosity, is there any way to convert files from
> Appleworks 3.0 to something a more modern computer could use? Thanks.
I would export the files to a disk image, send it to a Windows box and
have CiderPress look at them. From there you could copy and paste the
document to your favorite program.
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Andy McFadden
>> Just out of curiosity, is there any way to convert files from
>> Appleworks 3.0 to something a more modern computer could use? Thanks.
>
> I would export the files to a disk image, send it to a Windows box and
> have CiderPress look at them. From there you could copy and paste the
> document to your favorite program.
You're probably better off extracting them with "convert for use in
Windows" mode. The database and spreadsheet are converted to CSV,
and the word processor to RTF, both of which can be loaded directly
by OpenOffice or Excel. (You can also do the whole lot in one batch,
instead of loading and converting them individually.)
Excel did a reasonable job of interpreting the formulas in AppleWorks
spreadsheets. Some of the functions need to be converted, but some of
the common ones worked right off, and the basic arithmetic seemed to work.
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julian814
Andy McFadden wrote:
> Mark Percival <ma...@syndicomm.com> wrote:
> >> Just out of curiosity, is there any way to convert files from
> >> Appleworks 3.0 to something a more modern computer could use? Thanks.
> >
> > I would export the files to a disk image, send it to a Windows box and
> > have CiderPress look at them. From there you could copy and paste the
> > document to your favorite program.
>
> You're probably better off extracting them with "convert for use in
> Windows" mode. The database and spreadsheet are converted to CSV,
> and the word processor to RTF, both of which can be loaded directly
> by OpenOffice or Excel. (You can also do the whole lot in one batch,
> instead of loading and converting them individually.)
>
> Excel did a reasonable job of interpreting the formulas in AppleWorks
> spreadsheets. Some of the functions need to be converted, but some of
> the common ones worked right off, and the basic arithmetic seemed to work.
Well, you should know, shouldn't you? ;-) I'll give it a whirl. The man
whose GS I sometimes work on is worried that some day his GS might give
out, so I thought it might be a good idea to find a way to transfer his
files over to his PC. As far as I can tell, most of what he has is for
the word processor, but he might have some spreadsheets as well.
Thanks!
Ralph
Frank Hahn
> Well, you should know, shouldn't you? ;-) I'll give it a whirl. The
> man whose GS I sometimes work on is worried that some day his GS
> might give out, so I thought it might be a good idea to find a way to
> transfer his files over to his PC. As far as I can tell, most of what
> he has is for the word processor, but he might have some spreadsheets
> as well.
>
with a cable that transferred files from the Apple to the IBM PC and
made conversions between AppleWorks and various software programs on
the PC.
It was available on several sites on the Internet at one time.
--
Frank Hahn
mspangler
MaclinkPlus will convert Appleworks (Mac or Apple II) files to
something else on a Mac. I don't know is the PC version can do the same
though.
julian814
I have Maclink Plus on my Mac, but my client has a PC. Seems Ciderpress
is my best bet.
Ralph Glatt
John B. Matthews
AppleCommander does a good job on AppleWorks AWP & ASP files. I don't
know about ADB.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/applecommander/
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I never got it to work when running windows... I had to restart
in MS DOS mode to get access to the serial ports.
It is a decent program... Zmodem is better.
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Michael J. Mahon
Perhaps for just moving files--but Crossworks actually does conversion
of, for example, spreadsheet files, into PC-usable spreadsheet files.
But it seems that CiderPress is now the preferred route, with better
conversions and much easier to use.
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