Apple IIe Card - Manual (Page 97)

Sometimes you may wish to transfer information from Apple IIe
programs to Macintosh programs. You can do so, provided you can find
a file format that both programs understand or you have a Macintosh
program that can read Apple IIe files directly.
For example, say you typed a long text passage using an Apple IIe
program and now you want to use the same text in a speech you’re
writing using a powerful Macintosh word processor. Most word
processors can read “text-only” files (also called ASCII files). To transfer
the text, you could (a) use an Apple IIe program to save the file in
text-only format, then (b) use the Macintosh program to open the file.
In general, follow these steps:
Before you begin: Your Macintosh should be on. If you’re a floppy
disk startup person you should start up from the IIe Startup Disk, as
explained in “Starting up From the
IIe Startup Disk” in Chapter 3.
1. Check the manuals of both the Apple IIe and Macintosh
programs to determine what file format, if any, the two
programs share.
Typical file types that Apple IIe and Macintosh programs might
share depend on what the programs do. For example, spreadsheet
programs might share a tab-delimited type and word-processing
programs might share a text-only type.
Unfortunately, you may not find shared file formats to exchange
pictures. If you can’t find one, see the next section, “Copying
Apple IIe Pictures,” which offers an alternative strategy.
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Using Apple IIe files
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