Apple 145 manual Converting files to and from MS-DOS format, Disk name

Converting files to and from

MS-DOS format

Apple File Exchange provides two methods of file conversion— text and binary. Text translation is for text files, and binary translation is for other file types.

Apple File Exchange can also use translator files designed to convert files into formats that specific programs can use. One such translator file is provided with Apple File Exchange: DCA-RFT/MacWrite, which converts documents between MacWrite format (for the Macintosh) and Document Content Architecture/ Revisable Form Text format (used by many MS-DOS word- processing programs).

File selected

for translation

Menus of translator files

Directory title or disk name

Disk name

Follow these steps to translate an MS-DOS (or ProDOS) file:

1.Locate the Apple File Exchange program and open it.

Apple File Exchange is supplied on one of your system software disks.

When you open the program, the contents of the active window are listed on the left side and an empty box appears on the right side.

2.Insert the floppy disk containing the files you want to translate.

3.Use the Open, Drive, and Eject buttons to display the files you want to translate and the disk or folder where you want to store the translated files.

4.Click the names of the files or folders you want to translate.

The appropriate translation menus (for translating from or to Macintosh format) appear in the menu bar when you select MS-DOS files.

Appendix B: Exchanging Disks and Files With MS-DOS Computers 259