Hi Caleb,
Re. your question from a few days back: Normally, floppies from the XP will be read just fine by the 190. That means, they appear on the desktop, with a 'PC' disk icon, and you can copy files from them to your harddisk. That's the first step.
If not, you can refer back to the details in the answers posted so far or just post a question again. There's one detail, though, that I want to mention: Write-protect the floppies before inserting them in the Powerbook. It's not essential, but it can prevent problems.
The second step is to open your files on the 190, which depends on - the programs that created the files on the XP - the programs you have on the 190 - and a bit on the content of the files.
If you want, post here which program(s) you want to use on the Powerbook, and I can get more to the point. For now, assuming that you have a version of MS Word on both computers, I'd recommend to first copy some of the .doc files to the 190's harddisk and try to open those copies. Double-clicking is not likely to work, so start Word and open the files from the File menu within Word. Choose 'List Files of Type: Readable Files' in the Open dialog box.
If the text looks like gibberish, your Mac Word is too old.
- One way out: There is a Convertor from Microsoft that allows you to
open WinWord 97/98/2000 files in MacWord 5.1 or 6.x. So you install that on the 190 and then opening the .doc files coming from the XP will give you a converted copy, including most of the pictures. Find this Convertor at (the URI should be one long line):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=18e45927-a094-4353-aa00-bd46f3709ff8&displaylang=en
- Another way: Go back to the XP, open the .doc files and re-save them in 'Rich Text Format'. You may lose some pictures or formatting, but most Mac text programs read RTF nicely.
Regarding the .txt files: If they are smaller than 32K, double-clicking will open them with SimpleText, which is included in every Mac OS. If they're bigger than 32K, you'll have to open them from within Word, or any other text program.
Problem: You'll probably see little squares at the beginning of every paragraph. These are LineFeed characters, which are used in Windows but not on the Mac. You can remove them with a global search and replace; another solution is again to save these files on the XP as RTF.
One point I'm not sure of: Will long file names come through properly on Mac OS 8.0? It may not be a big problem for you, but on older Mac OSes, PC files' long file names get forced into an 8+3 scheme.
Good luck and let me know how you're doing!
Ge'
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