--- In [email protected], Ray Parrish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> One thing you could try [no guarantees here] is to simply copy the
> Wordpad program from your Win98 machine to your Win XP machine and see
> if it will run. I've been hanging on to the old Windows 3.1 Cardfile
> program through several operating systems, and it still works. [even in
> Ubuntu under their Wine Windows emulator]
>
> If it complains about not finding a certain file when you attempt to
run
> it on the XP machine, find that file on the Win 98 machine and copy it
> into the system folder on your Win XP machine and try it again until
you
> stop getting unfound file complaints.
>
> Then I suppose you could always just go download this free Wordpad
> replacement that can read the files you have.
>
> http://www.jarte.com/
>
> Later, Ray Parrish
>
> d_papabear wrote:
> >
> > Hi, all--I'm a professional musician and have been using Win.98 for a
> > few years programming my one-man show...using midi files for playing
> > my background. I recently bought a new laptop (Acer Aspire 5050-3242)
> > loaded with Win. XP Media Editon. My problem is that all my files
> > created on Wordpad Win. 98 won't open in the new XP machine. I have
> > thousands of files, song words, etc. created on Wordpad and I really
> > need some kind of driver or something to make the word 6.0 open in XP.
> > I insatlled Microsoft Office, but when it opened the wordpad files
> > from the old "98" program, it put it on a page with a bunch of stuff
> > at the top of the page instead of just the plain sheet with writing on
> > it. The Office program takes up about 1/3 page with different icons
> > for operations I will never use for my purpose. I would love to know
> > how to just make this XP open the old wordpad files. Any help will be
> > greatly appreciated. I'm obviosly not a tech, but I have been playing
> > with these machines "by ear" for approx. 10 years and have changed
> > hard drives, sound cards, floppy drives, fans, power supplies
> > myself...so hopefully I can understand what you tell me. Thanks!--
> > ROBERT--
> >
> >
>
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>
Thank you for your quick response. I have windows vista, what can I do
with that operating system. What you shared about window 98 or xp will
it work for window vista?
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