RE: [CH] OT: mac mastercook?
Mary & Riley (uGuys@ChileGarden.com)
Fri, 30 Mar 2001 10:38:39 -0800
> Brothers and Sisters of the Mac Affinity:
>
> Be there not a version of MasterCook for the Mac? If no, be there
> other software that will import mastercook format? Just go with an
> Appleworks DB and work from there?
>
I don't have a Mac--yet, Apple is using FreeBSD unix in their new OS so I
just may get one. But Sierra/Mastercook doesn't have a Mac version, and it
doesn't run well on Win2000. I'm a bit disappointed with the functionality
and wonder about what others recommend/use? Mine crashes easily when
importing text. And printing has problem too.
Think your best bet is to find a similar program written for Mac that
imports Mastercook. If there is one.
It would be rather straight forward to import Mastercook exported text based
format into a database, but Mastercook files are binary and may be non
standard, ie not M$ Access, xbase, etc. So unless Appleworks DB's built
import programs directly support Mastercook format, real unlikely, you'd
have to export to text from Windows Mastercook, pipe that over to your Mac,
then import it into your database.
Riley