Opening old DEC files

Zane Healy healyzh at avanthar.com
Thu Mar 21 21:54:29 CDT 2019


> On Mar 21, 2019, at 6:13 PM, Jay Jaeger via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> On 3/21/2019 2:50 PM, Curt Vendel via cctalk wrote:
>> I have many DEC files that I’ve recovered from old VMS backups to a PC.
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>> Many are Word-11, ALL-IN-1 WPS and VMS Mail MAI files.
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>> They don’t open well in programs like the Windows Text editors 
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>> Is there a program on Windows that can open these files and recognize all of the formatting and control commands so they can be properly viewed?
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> Perhaps restore them onto a SimH VMS instance, and use that to print the
> document files and mail the mail to yourself?

Word-11 will be tricky.  I’m not aware of anyone having the media for that.  ALL-IN-1 is easy, if you’re running it, you can export as a MS compatible doc.  

Zane






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