On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:31:12 -0600, 
"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Ok, I'm abusing my powers here to ask a really [OT] question.  If
> anyone objects, you definitely wouldn't be out of line.  But it's
> easier to ask forgiveness than permission, right? :-)
> 
> I have some really old, as in ancient ventura publishing files that
> I'd be interesting at cracking open and at least extracting out the
> important stuff in order to convert to some more modern tool.
> 
> I'm seeing extensions like ".WP" and ".WS" which is probably text in
> word perfect and word star formats.
> 
> I'm also seeing extentions like .CAP .CHP .CIF .VGR .CHP .STY .GEM and
> .PLT

..try them in Koffice(.org) and/or OpenOffice(.org), these guys will be
interested in debugging their stuff.

..alternatively, put them online and post the url here, so we can play
with them.

> Does this ring a bell for anyone?  It's probably 10 year old stuff at 
> least?  netbpm supposedly has a GEM converter, but these gem files are
> 
> older than what the gemtopnm util supports.  Ughhh!
> 
> I should probably just rm * the whole lot, have a minute of silence,
> and get on with my life, but I thought I'd ask first ....
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Curt.


-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.



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