bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bob Church) (09/06/90)
One way of converting PFS files is to print them to the serial port. Connect another computer to it and set your parameters to the same ones that PFS uses for running a printer. If you are converting a PFS database use the mailing labels option to "print" a text file with each field delineated by a carriage return. You then have to use an Appleworks like data base program which uses a specified records number to pull it in. bob church bchurch.oucsace.ohiou.cs.edu
jem@hpisod2.HP.COM (Jim McCauley) (09/08/90)
/ hpisod2:comp.sys.apple2 / stanp@pro-fishunt.cts.com (Stan Planton) / 6:14 am Sep 5, 1990 / The "old" PFS File appears to be a P-system disk; it acts like a PASCAL booting program on bootup. There is an interesting attempt at copy protection involving synch. bytes on bootup, but nothing else extraordinary. To convert to MS-DOS would probably take using the PFS "Convert" disk to convert the file to ProDOS, then using the "new" ProDOS version of PFS File to write the file as a delimited ASCII file to a data disk; the file could then be transmitted to a PC via modem, or put onto a 3.5" disk, read into a Mac using the convert utility of Works, and converted to a 3.5" MS-DOS disk via "normal" methods. Stan ----------