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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Exchanging between different computers
Message-ID: <44584@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 6 Sep 90 20:21:16 GMT
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In article <22843.chatter.infoapple@pro-beagle> mmunz@pro-beagle.cts.com (Mark Munz) writes:
>
>Ah... but Remember, there are programs (such as MacWrite II) which will
>import a "raw copy" of an AppleWorks file int MWII w/ most formatting. 
>
>And Claris (Apple) was trying to promote this technology (XTND) as a 
>standard for all Mac applications..  Thus if we could just read PRODOS 
>disks on the Macintosh, we wouldn't have to go through AFE at all (once
>the standard is adopted).
>
Unless no one has written an XTND translator yet and an AFE translator exists,
in which case you can get useful work done by using AFE or you can complain
a whole lot and garner little sympathy.

>Here's a question.. why is it that Microsoft's "Works-to-Works" (which,
>btw.. still only does AW 2.x format) is about 10000 times faster than
>Apple's Text converter??
>
Dunno.  Probably because the built-in text converter has a bunch of options
regarding changing CR to CR/LF, stripping 8-bit ASCII to 7-bit ASCII, etc., and
Works-to-Works doesn't have any such run-time options.

>Mark Munz

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