halp@TCGOULD.TN.CORNELL.EDU ("Bruce P. Halpern") (02/26/89)
To: dauith@dhw68k.cts.com Subject: Re: Apple ][ c <-> IBM pc file conversion Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.ibm.pc In-Reply-To: <20296@dhw68k.cts.com> Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Cc: Bcc: WordPerfect 4.2 and 5.0 have no trouble reading text files. Therefore, your only problem is to go from Apple //c (especially AppleWorks) files to IBM text files. AppleWorks files can always be printed to disk as text files. This produces a problem with word processor files, since a LF-CR is inserted at the end of each line. Use of the Beagle Brothers Timeout desk accessory AWP TO TEXT eliminates this problem. At this point you have an Apple // text file on disk, and want to have an IBM text file. Some of your options have been discussed many times: Use cables between serial ports together with communication programs, or upload to a mainframe from the Apple //, then down load to the IBM. If you know someone who has an Applied Engineering PC Transporter in an Apple, you have a third option. The PC Transporter puts a IBM-clone (more-or-less an AT) inside an Apple //. It also come with software that converts between Apple (ProDOS) files and IBM compatible files. I've used this with WordPerfect. An even less direct route requires a Macintosh. Current MacII (or MacIIx) can read and write both IBM and Mac format disks. All Macs can read and write Apple // format disks using the Apple File Converter. If you have recurrent needs to go between IBM and Apple //, you might want to look into MatchPoint-PC, sold by MicroSolutions (132 W. Lincoln Hwy., DeKalb IL 60115, tel: 815-756-3411). It's a card that plugs into an IBM and allows connection and use of an Apple // drive. I've no personal experience with this product, but I do have, use, and enjoy a parallel product, MatchMaker, that allows a Macintosh drive to be used by a IBM, and converts between Mac and IBM text files. -- | Bruce P. Halpern Psychology & Neurobiology & Behavior Cornell Ithaca | | INTERNET:halp@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu BITNET:D57J@CORNELLA D57J@CRNLVAX5| | UUCP:{vax135,rochester,decvax}!cornell!batcomputer!halp | | PHONE: 607-255-6433 Uris Hall, Cornell U., Ithaca, NY 14853-7601 | ****DISCLAMER: My comments, etc., are my own shakey opinions ********