"Gregory Weston" wrote in message news:gwestonREMOVE-4DC83B.13415129092004@netnews.comcast.net... > In article <9791a08.0409290858.61bdc5be@posting.google.com>, > mlgstudios@yahoo.com (mlgstudios) wrote: > > > I have a IIGS with about 150 word processor files that I want to > > convert to Text, or even better some version of MS Works or MS Word. > > I have a Mac SE that will act as the intermediate computer, copying > > files off the IIGS formatted disks and dropping them on the PC > > formatted disks. > > > > I am aware that you can print a file to ASCII from Appleworks; > > however, this is very very tedious considering the number of files I > > need to convert. I'm hoping that some program out there can do a > > batch convert or something. > > > A long time ago - like in the era that SE was new - there was a program > called Apple File Exchange. It was mostly used to copy data to and from > file systems that the Mac didn't support directly, but also had a > plug-in document conversion system. I know I saw AppleWorks converters. > Check at the info-mac archives, maybe. > > G Good advice. I'm sure AFE is very easy to find, but the Appleworks --> MS Works translator may not be. I found it here: http://mirrors.xmission.com/info-mac/cmp/ Good luck - let us know if you succeed. Tim "Tim Haynes" wrote in message news:cjeuuf$q8$1@rumours.uwaterloo.ca... > > "Gregory Weston" wrote in message > news:gwestonREMOVE-4DC83B.13415129092004@netnews.comcast.net... > > In article <9791a08.0409290858.61bdc5be@posting.google.com>, > > mlgstudios@yahoo.com (mlgstudios) wrote: > > > > > I have a IIGS with about 150 word processor files that I want to > > > convert to Text, or even better some version of MS Works or MS Word. > > > I have a Mac SE that will act as the intermediate computer, copying > > > files off the IIGS formatted disks and dropping them on the PC > > > formatted disks. > > > > > > I am aware that you can print a file to ASCII from Appleworks; > > > however, this is very very tedious considering the number of files I > > > need to convert. I'm hoping that some program out there can do a > > > batch convert or something. > > > > > > A long time ago - like in the era that SE was new - there was a program > > called Apple File Exchange. It was mostly used to copy data to and from > > file systems that the Mac didn't support directly, but also had a > > plug-in document conversion system. I know I saw AppleWorks converters. > > Check at the info-mac archives, maybe. > > > > G > > Good advice. I'm sure AFE is very easy to find, but the Appleworks --> MS > Works translator may not be. I found it here: > http://mirrors.xmission.com/info-mac/cmp/ > > Good luck - let us know if you succeed. > Tim By the way, the drop-text-15.hqx utility on http://mirrors.xmission.com/info-mac/cmp/ apprently lets you do batch conversions of Appleworks to text, also. Tim In comp.sys.apple2 mlgstudios wrote: > I am aware that you can print a file to ASCII from Appleworks; > however, this is very very tedious considering the number of files I > need to convert. I'm hoping that some program out there can do a > batch convert or something. (1) Create an image of the disk with the AppleWorks files. (2) Copy the disk image to Windows. (3) Use CiderPress to extract the files, using the "easy access in Windows" mode. Takes the same amount of time whether you're converting one file or 100 files. AWP becomes formatted text (.rtf), ASP and ADP become .csv files that can be loaded into Excel. The current version does not have a "plain text" mode, mostly because it hadn't occured to me to have one -- you lose most of the formatting. Easy enough to add. http://www.faddensoft.com/ciderpress/ -- Send mail to fadden@fadden.com (Andy McFadden) - http://www.fadden.com/ CD-Recordable FAQ - http://www.cdrfaq.org/ CiderPress Apple II archive utility for Windows - http://www.faddensoft.com/ Fight Internet Spam - http://spam.abuse.net/spam/ & http://spamcop.net/