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tabanna

25 Oct 2002 25 Oct '02

06:59

Recently, i have received a number of 'attachments' in .WPS format ~ anyone know, please, what this is, and what can be used to read .wps ? thanks best wishes ____________ sent on Linux ____________

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Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk

25 Oct 25 Oct

07:40

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On 25-Oct-02 tabanna wrote:

Recently, i have received a number of 'attachments' in .WPS format

~ anyone know, please, what this is, and what can be used to read .wps ?

This seems to be a case of MS screwing its own kind. From: http://revelation.unomaha.edu/information/library_user/01w/remember.php3 As faculty, staff, and students use and/or have access to several different word processing programs, ranging from Microsoft Word (MSWord) to Microsoft Works (MSWorks) to WordPerfect to Claris/AppleWorks just to name a few, it is important to consider the file formats in which documents can be saved. Each of the word processing programs listed above can save a file in its own proprietary format - as a .doc, .wps, or .wpd file. While these may be easily opened on computers where those specific programs are installed, it is nearly impossible to open the files on machines that have only one of the word processing packages available. For example, a file created and saved with MSWorks in .wps format cannot be opened in MSWord because of the proprietary format. Conversely, MSWorks cannot open a .doc file created by MSWord. This can lead to frustration as students and staff attempt to work on papers and other documents interchangeably between home and campus.

thanks best wishes

And to you! And good luck ... Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 25-Oct-02 Time: 08:40:13 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk

08:02

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On 25-Oct-02 tabanna wrote:

Recently, i have received a number of 'attachments' in .WPS format

~ anyone know, please, what this is, and what can be used to read .wps ?

Sorry, I should have added something a bit more helpful. People who send you .WPS files either don't know what they're doing, or assume you are using MS Works. It's up to you to come to a view on whether your relationship with these people is such that they could reasonably expect you to put yourself in a position to handle what they send you (as it might be if you were, for instance, doing consultancy work for them). However, if that's not the case, then the onus is on them. Users of MS Works are in a minority compared with users of MS Office (specifically Word), and Works folk creating documents for general consumption should at the very least put it in Word (.doc) format or -- far preferably -- in RTF format. The latter can be read by a variety of software, including programs available for Linux. (The editor 'Ted' does quite a good job with RTF, which (see below) I get a wee kick out of ... ) So, if you are in a position to do so, I can only suggest that you ask these folk to save an RTF version of their documents before sending them to you. That will at least give you a fighting chance, though if they've gone overboard on "features" which only Works can provide[*] then you may still face problems. Best wishes, Ted. [*] In the immortal words of Jasper Carrott: "Q: Why do dogs lick their balls: A: Because they CAN!!" -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 25-Oct-02 Time: 09:02:50 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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tabanna

11:10

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On Friday 25 October 2002 08:02 am, Ted Harding wrote:

ask these folk to save an RTF version of their documents before sending them to you

~ Gee, thanks, Ted . . . i asked them please to send as Plain Text :) -- best wishes ____________ sent on Linux ____________

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Charles Philip Chan

08:57

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Circa Fri. Oct. 25, 2002 at 06:59:54 +0000, a lone cry was heard from tabanna in the wasteland called the Internet:

Recently, i have received a number of 'attachments' in .WPS format

~ anyone know, please, what this is, and what can be used to read .wps ?

It is a Wordperfect file, try reading it with Abiword. Charles -- linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste (ksh@cis.ufl.edu put this on Tshirts in '93)

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tabanna

11:15

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On Friday 25 October 2002 08:57 am, Charles Philip Chan wrote:

It is a Wordperfect file, try reading it with Abiword

~ thanks for the idea ~ maybe I'll try an : apt-get install abiword :) -- best wishes ____________ sent on Linux ____________

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Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk

11:38

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On 25-Oct-02 tabanna wrote:

On Friday 25 October 2002 08:57 am, Charles Philip Chan wrote:

...
It is a Wordperfect file, try reading it with Abiword

~ thanks for the idea ~ maybe I'll try an :

apt-get install abiword :)

Hmmm, I doubt it ... WordPerfect's default extension is ".wpd", though you can suppress this and use what you like (WP recognises the format of a file by inspecting its first few bytes, not from the extension). So ".wps" _could_ be a WP document if the user so chose; but it's not what WordPerfect would choose if left to itself. However, Works word-processor documents do have extension ".wps" and this is more likely. Cheers, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 25-Oct-02 Time: 12:38:19 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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Charles Philip Chan

12:23

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Circa Fri. Oct. 25, 2002 at 12:38:19 +0100, a lone cry was heard from (Ted Harding) in the wasteland called the Internet:

So ".wps" _could_ be a WP document if the user so chose; but it's not what WordPerfect would choose if left to itself.

.wps is the extension for older versions of Wordperfect. Charles -- How do I type "for i in *.dvi do xdvi i done" in a GUI? (Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of interfaces.)

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Michael Trittipo

14:55

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Charles Philip Chan wrote:

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So ".wps" _could_ be a WP document if the user so chose; but it's not what WordPerfect would choose if left to itself.

.wps is the extension for older versions of Wordperfect.

How old? WP5.1DOS had no automatic extension & WPWin5.2 didn't either, afair; WPWin8 used .wpd -- which version automatically assigned .wps on its own w/o the user setting it? (Just curious.) Mike Trittipo Minnesota

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Charles Philip Chan

15:09

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Circa Fri. Oct. 25, 2002 at 09:55:12 -0500, a lone cry was heard from Michael Trittipo in the wasteland called the Internet:

How old? WP5.1DOS had no automatic extension & WPWin5.2 didn't either, afair; WPWin8 used .wpd -- which version automatically assigned .wps on its own w/o the user setting it? (Just curious.)

My mistake, I was confusing it with wp5 :-(. Also, I had to convert a bunch of old Wordperfect files for a friend a couple months back and he was using the non-standard wps extension. Charles -- There are no threads in a.b.p.erotica, so there's no gain in using a threaded news reader. (Unknown source)

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Gregory Sawyer

21:40

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On Friday 25 October 2002 08:09 am, you wrote:

Circa Fri. Oct. 25, 2002 at 09:55:12 -0500, a lone cry was heard from Michael Trittipo in the wasteland called

the Internet:

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How old? WP5.1DOS had no automatic extension & WPWin5.2 didn't either, afair; WPWin8 used .wpd -- which version automatically assigned .wps on its own w/o the user setting it? (Just curious.)

My mistake, I was confusing it with wp5 :-(. Also, I had to convert a bunch of old Wordperfect files for a friend a couple months back and he was using the non-standard wps extension.

Charles

.WPS was also the default extension for word processing docs created with a Digital Equipment Corp. word processing / office automation system that ran I know on PDP-11's under RSTS/E and I think on VAX/VMS as well. The exact name of the package escapes me at the moment, but I think it was called "All-In-One". It's possible, if the originating system is DEC, that it could be that -- though the last time I had contact with this system was in 1989. Maybe saving off the files, and head(1)'ing them off may yeild some info about the document's origin. -- --Gregory

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Charles Philip Chan

21:39

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Circa Fri. Oct. 25, 2002 at 14:40:51 -0700, a lone cry was heard from Gregory Sawyer in the wasteland called the Internet:

Maybe saving off the files, and head(1)'ing them off may yeild some info about the document's origin.

The command "file" should be able to identify it. Charles -- Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of minix. (Linus Torvalds to Andrew Tanenbaum)

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