Path: news1.icaen!news.uiowa.edu!chi-news.cic.net!cs.utexas.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!unix.triton.net!manawatu.planet.co.nz!manawatu.gen.nz!news.express.co.nz!actrix.gen.nz!dempson From: dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Microsoft Works file translator for GS Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 23:30:29 +1300 Organization: Empsoft Lines: 52 Message-ID: <1997022323302914583@dempson.actrix.gen.nz> References: <19970202175801.MAA05157@ladder01.news.aol.com> <5d3jh5$qhq@uni.library.ucla.edu> <19970205065300.BAA29540@ladder01.news.aol.com> <5db17g$102a@navajo.gate.net> <5e2id4$1o1e@uni.library.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dempson.actrix.gen.nz X-Newsreader: MacSOUP 2.2b6 wrote: > rigby@ptdprolog.net (Jon) wrote: > >I think that ClarisWorks 4.0 has an AppleWorks 3.0 and AppleWorks GS > >Translator files. AppleWorks 3.0, yes (all modules). AppleWorks GS: only Word Processor files. Others cannot be directly imported, though you can export at least Spreadsheet files from AppleWorks GS as text files (with formulae) and import them into ClarisWorks. > Isn't it true that to get CW to recognize AWGS files, you have > to edit the file-info so that it reads "pdos" and "awgs" or > something? The HFS FST does not automatically do this. Not exactly. The HFS FST uses the newer conventions for encoding ProDOS filetypes on Mac disks. This gives a creator of 'pdos' and a binary encoded filetype which starts with 'p' and contains the ProDOS filetype and auxiliary type. ClarisWorks might not recognise AppleWorks Classic files if their filetypes are stored in this form on an HFS disk (it would have to examine only the first two characters of the filetype, thereby ignoring the auxiliary type). I have not tried this. It will work with the older convention: the ProDOS filetype is converted to a two-digit hexadecimal number. The Mac filetype is this number followed by two spaces. The creator is still 'pdos'. The ProDOS auxiliary type is lost. This produces the following translations: ProDOS Mac Mac Filetype Filetype Creator ADB '19 ' 'pdos' AWP '1A ' 'pdos' ASP '1B ' 'pdos' (The auxiliary type is used to encode the upper/lower case filename for an AppleWorks file, and can be ignored.) AppleWorks GS Word Processor files require the file type ($50: GWP) and auxiliary type ($8010) to be correctly identified. ClarisWorks must therefore expect the new convention, in which the Mac filetype will be 'pP' followed by two unprintable (and untypeable) characters ($80 and $10). -- David Empson dempson@actrix.gen.nz Snail Mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand