ClarisWorks

ClarisWorks was an office suite for the Macintosh published by Claris Software, a software company spun off from Apple. When that company was merged back into Apple later, the suite became AppleWorks (a name also previously used for an Apple II office suite).

Early Mac files usually did not have file extensions (file types were determined by MacOS metadata), but ClarisWorks/AppleWorks files are sometimes found with .cwk extensions.

Programming libraries

 * libmwaw: library to read MacWrite and ClarisWorks files

Links

 * Wikipedia article on AppleWorks
 * Discussion on opening ClarisWorks files in OpenOffice
 * Reading ClarisWorks 3 Documents in Mac OS X