Apple Newton Connection Utilities (for Macintosh) - Manual (Page 47)

6 Click OK.
The Import dialog box appears.
7 Click Import.
The information is imported to your Newton application.
Importing a text file
You can import two types of text file: delimited text and plain text.
Applications, such as database managers, which store information organized
in records and fields, can often save information as a delimited text file.
Within the delimited file, individual items or fields of information are
separated by special characters such as commas or tab characters. Entire
entries within the text file are separated by return characters. The special
characters in a delimited text file maintain the organization of the records and
fields. An application that can read delimited text files can then import the
information into the fields and records of its own files.
A plain text file does not use such special characters to maintain the
organization of fields and records. For example, word-processing applications
can often save documents as plain text files, but they don’t use extra commas
or tab characters to organize the file. The information is saved as a long
sequence of text (including carriage returns that separate paragraphs). You
can import a plain text file into the Newton Notepad application, but not into
an area such as Names.
47 Importing Information to Your Newton Device