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Converting older simple text docs to text edit
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<blockquote data-quote="Bob M." data-source="post: 1865784" data-attributes="member: 200112"><p>I hope I'm posting in the right place... Recently, I needed a business document stored on my old Apple/Mac G3 tower (several computers ago). I probably haven't used this older Mac computer for 14~15 years but it started right up and seemed to work just fine. Nowadays, when I need to create a short document for myself (like a one-pager) I usually use the Text Edit app (in my iMac) as it's convenient and I'm not writing a novel, just a short note. Now, back in the G3 day (using Mac OS 9.2) the predecessor of Text Edit was called Simple Text and did about the same thing, at least for me, in my world. I used a memory stick to retrieve some of these older documents from the G3 computer but when I tried to open these Simple Text files on my iMac (running High Sierra, 10.13.6) I found that they were not the same as Text Edit and when clicking on a Simple Text file the Terminal utility program opened and I got alot of what looked like machine language, or a pageful of those arcane commands that the Terminal likes and uses. My question: is there some sort of file converter program so I can convert these older Simple Text files to Text Edit format documents. It would be very helpful to me (and save me a ton of typing) if such conversion process was possible. Thanks.</p><p>Bob M.</p><p></p><p>P.S. I guess I'm only well known around here for asking really elementary questions about really old computers...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bob M., post: 1865784, member: 200112"] I hope I'm posting in the right place... Recently, I needed a business document stored on my old Apple/Mac G3 tower (several computers ago). I probably haven't used this older Mac computer for 14~15 years but it started right up and seemed to work just fine. Nowadays, when I need to create a short document for myself (like a one-pager) I usually use the Text Edit app (in my iMac) as it's convenient and I'm not writing a novel, just a short note. Now, back in the G3 day (using Mac OS 9.2) the predecessor of Text Edit was called Simple Text and did about the same thing, at least for me, in my world. I used a memory stick to retrieve some of these older documents from the G3 computer but when I tried to open these Simple Text files on my iMac (running High Sierra, 10.13.6) I found that they were not the same as Text Edit and when clicking on a Simple Text file the Terminal utility program opened and I got alot of what looked like machine language, or a pageful of those arcane commands that the Terminal likes and uses. My question: is there some sort of file converter program so I can convert these older Simple Text files to Text Edit format documents. It would be very helpful to me (and save me a ton of typing) if such conversion process was possible. Thanks. Bob M. P.S. I guess I'm only well known around here for asking really elementary questions about really old computers... [/QUOTE]
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