dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) (04/11/91)
Here's a problem I haven't seen discussed. My son was working on some schoolwork, on one of the school's Macs, using MacWrite II. When he brought it home, we couldn't open his files (we don't have MacWrite II). Our ancient MacWrite 4.5 bombed when it tried to open the files (no surprise there). MS Word 4.0 couldn't see the files to open them. WriteNow 2.2a couldn't see the files to open them. Nisus 3.041 (Demo) couldn't see the files to open them. I thought MacWrite II had been around long enough for everybody to develop filters for their format. Wrong? It used to be that MacWrite format was the lingua franca of the Mac word processing world. Everybody could read/write it. Now it looks like nobody cares about MacWrite II files. Has Claris totally blown it, or can't I open them because I've been doing something incredibly stupid? -- Dave Matuszek (dave@prc.unisys.com) I don't speak for my employer. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | When I was young, my family bought a color TV. Our neigbors, who | | were poorer, had only a black-and-white set. They bought a piece of | | cellophane, red on top, yellow in the middle, and blue on the bottom, | | and taped it over their screen, so they could claim that they had a | | color TV, too. | | Now there's Windows 3.0. | -------------------------------------------------------------------------
edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) (04/11/91)
In article <17163@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) writes: >Here's a problem I haven't seen discussed. My son was working on some >schoolwork, on one of the school's Macs, using MacWrite II. When he >brought it home, we couldn't open his files (we don't have MacWrite II). > >Our ancient MacWrite 4.5 bombed when it tried to open the files (no >surprise there). Your son should save his files in some other format from within the MacWrite II program. Try several of the formats to get one that you can read. As I recall, MacWrite II can save in MacWrite 5.0 format, but MacWrite 4.5 cannot read that either... (I tried this a while ago because e still have quite a few Mac 512s running here, and they prefer to use MacWrite 4.5.) -- Gerald A. Edgar Department of Mathematics Bitnet: EDGAR@OHSTPY The Ohio State University Internet: edgar@mps.ohio-state.edu Columbus, OH 43210 ...!{att,pyramid}!osu-cis!shape.mps.ohio-state.edu!edgar