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
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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.

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Johnny Lee
t-jlee@microsoft.UUCP