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From: kjs39186@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kent Squires)
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Subject: Re: AppleWorks Spreadsheet --> SYLK?
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Date: 20 Mar 91 05:37:59 GMT
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jem@hpisod2.cup.hp.com (Jim McCauley) writes:

>I need to transfer a large number of fairly complex AppleWorks
>spreadsheets to an IBM PC that will run some kind of spreadsheet
>(Lotus 1-2-3 or Microsoft Excel) that reads in SYLK-format files.

>Is there somewhere out in netland a utility that converts ASP files
>into the SYLK format?  It's best if it runs on the Apple //e, but I
>could transfer the files to a Unix machine as binary images and do the
>conversions there, then zap them over to the PC.

>Jim McCauley	jem@hpulpcu3.cup.hp.com
>Disclaimer: I speak the truth, but only on my own behalf.

Well, there's a product called Cross-Works (v2.0) by SoftSpoken that
converts AppleWorks files to "most popular MS-DOS programs" among which
is Lotus 1-2-3.  It doesn't say anything about a SYLK format though.