On Nov 13, 2012, at 5:34 PM, Kevin Callahan <[email protected]> wrote: > A friend is trying to open a file from a very old Mac (circa 1997 or > earlier). It's a document file. > I'm guessing it might be an AppleWorks document. > > Is there an app on Mountain Lion that can open AppleWorks documents? > TextEdit doesn't understand the format.
Absolute worst case scenario: Open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal) When in Terminal, type: more and then drag the document in question into the Terminal window. That will stick the document's path into the command line. Then, hit return. That will show the raw data of the file. If it was a word processor document, you'll be able to make out much/all of what's there. If it was a spreadsheet or other format, you'll just see junk. But, if it was a spreadsheet, Excel should easily open it. -Andy_______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
