Opening old DEC files

On 21/03/2019 19:50, Curt Vendel via cctalk wrote: I remember using a non-DEC word processor on VAX/VMS at uni: it was either MASS-11 or WORD-11. I don't know how you would read that on anything other than VMS with the original word processor software. .MAI files are from the VMS Mail utility. The easy way to read those is to use VMS (maybe on SIMH if you don't have the hardware). There might be DECUS utilities that would pull apart VMS mail files for you and turn them into something else. This does remind me that I have a whole chunk of VMSMAIL messages myself, so perhaps I should look into something like this too! I do know that DEC was one of the first large users of MS Outlook. As part of the move away from VMSMAIL there was a conversion utility that would take your VMSMAIL files and turn them into an outlook PST (I think). From there there are tools that can turn a PST into eml files. There was a PC version of ALL-IN-1 (or maybe it was just the WPS part). That existed at the same time as the VMS ALL-IN-1 product so surely it must be able to read those files? That's assuming you can find a copy of the program. I never used it in anger, so I've no idea whether it supported exporting to other formats. Antonio -- Antonio Carlini antonio at acarlini.com