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- From: lecates@bach.udel.edu (Roy LeCates)
- Subject: Re: Apple File Exchange problems
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:16:42 GMT
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- In article <1jla5iINN7se@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cb408@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jason Reames) writes:
- >I'm STILL having problems converting AW files to Microsoft Works.
- >My school lab has LC2's. I've installed Apple File Exchange on the
- >hard drive of the LC. I've formatted a new disk on the GS and then dragged
- >the AW files from the 5.25" floppy to the 3.5" disk, formatted with
- >GS/OS from System 6.0.
- >Then I run Apple File Exchange. I then put in the 3.5" disk. I get the
- >message that the Mac doesn't recognize the disk, and the question is asked
- >if I want to format the disk or eject it.
- >I tried formatting with different Sys Disks and re-installing Apple File
- >Exchange- I get the same message each time. I've verified the
- >GS/OS formatted disk both with System 6 and with Copy2+ and there seem
- >to be no errors.
-
- Why don't you copy the files onto a HFS formatted disk? Then you can
- try to open the files directly in Works. I'm not sure if Works has an
- AW translator, but MacWrite II does have one. Good luck!
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- Roy M. LeCates EE Undergraduate lecates@bach.udel.edu
- University of Delaware Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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