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From: edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar)
Subject: Re: Can't read MacWrite II...?
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1991 12:35:10 GMT

In article <17163@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) writes:
>Here's a problem I haven't seen discussed.  My son was working on some
>schoolwork, on one of the school's Macs, using MacWrite II.  When he
>brought it home, we couldn't open his files (we don't have MacWrite II).
>
>Our ancient MacWrite 4.5 bombed when it tried to open the files (no
>surprise there).

Your son should save his files in some other format from within the MacWrite II
program.  Try several of the formats to get one that you can read.  As I
recall, MacWrite II can save in MacWrite 5.0 format, but MacWrite 4.5
cannot read that either...
(I tried this a while ago because e still have quite a few Mac 512s
running here, and they prefer to use MacWrite 4.5.)


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