(TextEdit will render a Microsoft Word table but discard its cell dimensions and indentation more specifically, TextEdit horizontally expands the table to fit the entire width of the application window. Some of these files are text-only and can be handled by TextEdit, but many of them contain either a table or a ChemDraw graphic, which TextEdit will not translate. The rescued hard disk of my defunct G3 iMac holds quite a few word processing files in the Microsoft Word 5.1 for the Macintosh (MWM5.1) file format. I don't know if OpenOffice will handle AppleWorks drawing, painting, database, and communications documents, with which I have no experience - you're on your own with these kinds of files. I find that non-ASCII characters (e.g., é, £, π) in exported documents are sometimes and sometimes not translated by OpenOffice you may have to retype these characters. Similarly, an AppleWorks 5 word processing file can be saved as an RTF file, which OpenOffice, or OS X's TextEdit if it's a text-only file, will smoothly open with or without an. xls extensions are respectively appended to their names. AppleWorks 5 spreadsheets can be saved as Microsoft Excel 4.0 worksheet files directly to the OS X environment through the Unix interface and then nicely opened by OpenOffice if. There's no need to keep your AppleWorks 5 documents in the SheepShaver environment. For example, if SheepShaver is already running and I copy a file to my hard disk, then in many cases (depending on the file's name) the file is automatically moved to the hard disk's Desktop Folder and placed on the SheepShaver desktop after I double-click the SheepShaver Unix disk interface and then close the resulting window. *SheepShaver can give rise to some strange desktop effects. The file can now be opened normally, i.e., by simply double-clicking its icon. Via the File menu's Open command, navigate to the imported file, which should now be readable.īTW, if you make and then save a change to the imported file - and this change can be as minor as appending a single space character to the end of the file - then the file's icon will change from generic to specific: cwk extension/suffix to the file's name - the AppleWorks executable won't recognize the file if you don't do this. Your AppleWorks file should appear directly on the SheepShaver desktop, but with a generic icon the Kind: field of the file's Get Info ⇒ General Information pane will merely say "document". (2) With the SheepShaverGUI Volumes tab's Unix Root field left at the / default, launch SheepShaver. (it's not necessary to quote a MyAppleWorksFile file name that doesn't contain any whitespace). Mv /"My AppleWorks File" /"Desktop Folder" (1) Copy the file to your OS X hard disk launch the Terminal utility and move the file to the hard disk's Desktop Folder* by executing: Here's an alternate, non-Disk Utility way to bring an AppleWorks file into the SheepShaver environment and then read it: In the emulated environment, the "AppleWorks" executable in the /Applications/AppleWorks 5 directory opens and writes to these files without incident.
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Of the preceding applications, only AppleWorks is already present on the Classic HD disk courtesy of the Software Restore iMac HD.img installation carried out in the previous post, so that's where we'll start.ĪppleWorks files, and in my experience files of all other programs, can be brought uncorruptedly into the SheepShaver environment via a Disk Utility volume, whose creation we detailed in Blog Entry #130. (1-4) read (and, by extension, write to) files created by Classic versions of AppleWorks, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and ChemDraw, and Per the "Why, exactly, did I do this?" subsection of Blog Entry #128, I will in today's post discuss my attempts in the SheepShaver emulated environment to Peak Location: Escondido, CA, United States
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