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From: rudy@cbnewsj.att.com (avram.r.vener)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Reading Apple disks on a PC
Keywords: Apple disks
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.021405.1507@cbnewsj.att.com>
Date: 15 Mar 91 02:14:05 GMT
References: <18395@milton.u.washington.edu>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <18395@milton.u.washington.edu> djo7613@hardy.u.washington.edu.acs.washington.edu (Dick O'Connor) writes:
>What would YOU do if you had to read some text files created on
>Apple II GS machines using Appleworks into a PC desktop publishing
>application?  (That's what you get when your network of volunteers
>don't all have the same home microcomputers, sigh!)
>
>Buy a board?  Buy/find software?  Thank your volunteers and send them home?
>Thanks for any advice...
>
   None of the above.  As I recall from my Apple //c days, Applworks has the
ability to 'print' the text as an ASCII file (as opposed to an AW file).  
Your volunteer can then upload the file to you or to a BBS where you can 
pick it up.

Rudy Vener  AT&T BTL  uucp:  att!mtqua!rudy