Opening old DEC files

[Jay Jaeger]

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?