AppleWorks

File Format
Name	AppleWorks
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Document Word Processor AppleWorks
Extension(s)	.cwk
Released	1984

AppleWorks is a name used for three different office suites, one for the Apple II series, one for the IIgs (which didn't use any code from the earlier Apple II version, but could open its files) and a later one for the Macintosh (the latter being the former ClarisWorks, and more info on its file format is in the ClarisWorks article). Apparently the IIgs version could bridge the file-format gap between Apple II and Mac, since it could open Apple II AppleWorks files and its files, if ported to a Mac, could be opened in the Mac AppleWorks, even though those programs had different codebases.

Mac AppleWorks files are often found with .cwk extensions (inherited from ClarisWorks), though traditionally Mac users didn't save files with extensions because the file types were stored as metadata.

Links

• Wikipedia article on AppleWorks
• Article on AppleWorks for Apple II series
• Transfer AppleWorks data from Apple IIgs to Macintosh
• File formats supported by AppleWorks 6.1.2
• Migrating from AppleWorks
• Parsing Appleworks and Clarisworks file formats
  • Detailed format docs
  • Parser source on GitHub
• LibreOffice import filter for legacy Mac file-formats
• libmwaw | Import library for legacy Mac documents