slc1290@hare.udev.cdc.com (steve chesney x4662) (06/25/91)
When my church converted computers, they left an important database on Apple IIe disks - with no means to convert. The files are ASCII and I wish to get them over to a Mac disk. Is there a PD or shareware utility for this? Thanks. -- Steve Chesney Control Data Corporation slc1290@hare.udev.cdc.com
peterc@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter Creath) (06/25/91)
Well, make sure your Apple //e text files are straight text (ie: not AppleWorks. If they are, print them as ASCII files) Then, find anyone with a Mac with an FDHD drive. (SE/FDHD, SE/30, IIfx, IIci, IIsi, II LC, etc.). You can then use "Apple File Exchange" to read directly off a 3.5" ProDOS disk. Oops. If the files are on DOS 3.3, use the ProDOS System Master or Copy II+ to convert them to ProDOS. Then find someone with a 3.5" drive on their Apple II (a IIgs, maybe), or you could even borrow a Mac's 3.5" external (if you've got the interface card). In any case, if you want to do it "easily" you need to: 1) Have the ASCII files on a 3.5" ProDOS disk to read with an FDHD 2) Have a modem on both computers, call each other (or direct-connect with a phone cable), and transfer the ASCII files... --
lamont@convex.com (Bradley Lamont) (06/26/91)
In <1991Jun25.163303.9212@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> peterc@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter Creath) writes: > >Then, find anyone with a Mac with an FDHD drive. (SE/FDHD, SE/30, IIfx, >IIci, IIsi, II LC, etc.). You can then use "Apple File Exchange" to read >directly off a 3.5" ProDOS disk. > You don't need a FDHD to read ProDOS disks. I have done it using my old SE. Both ProDOS and MacOS use the same low (and I mean really low, as in the method of magnetizing the drive) level encoding scheme. You only need a FDHD to read other methods of encoding (i.e. IBM). Later, Brad Lamont