I originally had a problem installing Appleworks on my G4 Powerbook, as the installer was Classic only. Once I got classic going, I was able to open the installer and afterwords, install the updates needed to get it to work under OSX. Intel Macs would have a problem with these extra needed steps.
I have found that Pages, part of the iWorks combo will open my Appleworks documents. I have not tried some of the various other options of Appleworks like the spreadsheet, and other variants available thru Appleworks. I have not tried to open stuff from my old ClarisWorks Version 3 days, but I would imagine those would also open as well, and could test them out if you have some really old documents you need to try to open. David Witmer AKA Snogpitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 4989342 Webpage: http://pages.prodigy.net/snogpitch/ --- On Thu, 11/27/08, cb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > PS for the grand prize (do you like ginger snaps?) how > can I open > > my Apple Works 6 files, transfered over to the MacBook > OSX, from > > my iMac OS9, but unopenable? I think I can open one at > a time by > > changing it to a "dot doc", but I'm > wanting a way to be able to > > open them ALL. Smell those ginger snaps..... > > You could install AppleWorks 6 on your new Mac and run it, > then you > don't need to convert anything. Otherwise, you need > either a program > that can open AppleWorks format files, or convert them. > MacLinkPlus > I'm sure can convert them, as for opening them, you can > check out > OpenOffice, it *might* but I honestly have no idea. > > You could also open them all on your older machine in > AppleWorks and > resave them in some other format. > > As for simply changing the extension to dot doc, that > probably won't > work. That would just make OS X think it is a Word > document, and then > Word would try to open it, but it will likely try to open > it as a > word doc which would fail. Assuming word can open them > (supports the > AppleWorks 6 format) then you can do get info on any one of > them and > set it to open with Word and then click the option for > setting all > files of that type to open with Word. > > -chris > <www.mythtech.net> > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
