On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 10:44 -0500, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 01:38, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 20:30 -0500, James Knott wrote:
Unfortunately you need a copy of MS word for this one.
Hi Mike,
Something's been 'bugging me' about this .wps file conversion quest you're on. I finally figured out what it is: I'd say at least most, if not all, of the mass-produced, lower end brand name pc's I service have Works installed. Check your customers and relatives and friends... their attics and garages and kid's rooms... those systems are *everywhere* up here...
Oh wait... brb... . . . . Yup!
Got one in Marie's room! <grin> [She's six and dual booting already!]
As a last resort, you can contact me off list and I'll extract and convert those files for you, but I'm sure you can find something closer, don't ya think?
Actually I lucked out and got the original box, found a power supply for it, and am waiting till the weekend to go at it. First order of business is of course to boot my system into ME and access the box via the network. I'll try the converter that James mentioned above. If that fails it'll probably be an open and export on the original box. I had initially thought, I wouldn't get access to the box, just the files. I'm continuing on with this just because, as you note, there are so many of these things out there. I'll hopefully find a reasonable solution, and be able to guide others through this later, it would be nice to be able to do it sans Word. Mike