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From: kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Reading Apple disks on a PC
Keywords: Apple disks
Message-ID: <1991Mar16.020215.28048@digi.lonestar.org>
Date: 16 Mar 91 02:02:15 GMT
References: <18395@milton.u.washington.edu>
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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?  

For over a year now there has appeared a quarter-page ad in the AppleWorks
Forum (the monthly journal of the National AppleWorks Users Group (NAUG)), for
a product called Cross-Works.  It states: "You can exchange AppleWorks data
files with the most popular MS-DOS programs: Microsoft Works, Lotus 1-2-3,
WordPerfect, dBase III & IV.  The ad claims InCider gave it a 4 star rating.
For $99.95 (plus shipping) you get a 19200 baud cable which can connect to a
//e, //c, //cPlus, or a //gs on one end and a IBM PC, XT, AT, PS/2 &
compatibles.  This is a direct connect, no modem needed, but use with modems
is supported.  You also get software for the Apple and software for the PC.
The company is SoftSpoken, P.O. Box 18343, Raleigh, NC 27619.  Comes with a 30
day money-back guarantee.  The ad says to call (919)870-5694 for free
information.

I have no connection with SoftSpoken.  Nor have I used Cross-Works.  It does
look promising though.  The ad claims:  "Cross-Works 2.0 copies files either
way between your Apple // and IBM PC, and translates file formats.  Word
processor files maintain underlining, centering, etc.  Spreadsheets keep data
and formulas!"
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