22 Mar
2019
22 Mar
'19
3:50 a.m.
On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 at 20:50, Curt Vendel via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I have many DEC files that I?ve recovered from old VMS backups to a PC.
Many are Word-11, ALL-IN-1 WPS and VMS Mail MAI files.
They don?t open well in programs like the Windows Text editors
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?
Wow, I bet they don't!
That's a great question. I used tools such as that myself, decades
ago, but I didn't get to keep any documents.
I've even had the issue of importing from Word 6 into Word 97 and
later. I run Word 97 even now, under WINE on Ubuntu, not because
there's anything in 97 I need -- there isn't -- but because it uses
the same file-format as versions up to 2003 (Win)/2004 (Mac). I'd
rather run an even older, lighter version such as Word 95 or Word 6
for NT, but they use an older file-format modern WPs can't import.
A late version of WordPerfect for DOS *might* do it... I have WP6.2
for DOS running on PC DOS 7.1 and it runs fine on modern hardware. I'm
not confident, though.
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