Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!microsoft!t-jlee From: t-jlee@microsoft.UUCP (Johnny Lee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Appleworks conversion to Mac Summary: Don't need SuperDrive at all Message-ID: <7920@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 2 Oct 89 00:30:09 GMT References: <24436.25247371@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Reply-To: t-jlee@microsoft.UUCP (Johnny Lee) Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 23 In article <24436.25247371@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Adam.Frix@f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes: >To convert AppleWorks stuff to the Mac, your friend should get a hold of a >SuperDrive-equipped Mac. Shouldn't be too tough, since even the new SEs >being sold now are so equipped. Run the program Apple File Exchange >(AFE), which comes with the System software. (Hey, FREE!) The SuperDrive >will then accept your friend's ProDos disks, and will perform the >conversion to Microsoft Works files for the Mac. > > You don't need a SuperDrive to do this stuff. A regular 800K floppy will do. ProDOS and HFS/MFS share the same disk format. I believe Alsoft, makers of Disk Express(??) etc, had a program called ProLink which would allow you to do a straight copy of a ProDOS file over to a Mac using only the Mac disk drive. Copy II Mac will copy your ProDOS disks if you ever have to do it. >-- >Adam Frix via cmhGate - Net 226 fido<=>uucp gateway Col, OH >UUCP: ...!osu-cis!n8emr!cmhgate!200!Adam.Frix >INET: Adam.Frix@f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG Johnny Lee t-jlee@microsoft.UUCP