Re: Identifying file formats for older files

2011-09-02 Thread Bob Paver
What operating system? Windows, some flavor of Unix, or other? BP On Sep 1, 2011, at 10:55 AM, arvinport...@lycos.com arvinport...@lycos.com wrote: I have several hundred files, most from the MS DOS days, without meaningful file extensions. Most are probably in some old version of MS Word

Re: Re: Identifying file formats for older files

2011-09-01 Thread arvinport...@lycos.com
Unix Solaris would be best because that's where all the files are archived. If I have to move them to a Windows PC to do it then Windows will do as well. Arvin On Sep 1, 2011, Bob Paver bob.pa...@gmail.com wrote: What operating system? Windows, some flavor of Unix, or other? BP On Sep 1,

Re: Identifying file formats for older files

2011-09-01 Thread Brian Sheppard
Arvin, you may want to have a look at FITS: http://code.google.com/p/fits/ which makes use of DROID: http://sourceforge.net/projects/droid/ -Brian On Sep 1, 2011, at 8:41 PM, arvinport...@lycos.com wrote: Unix Solaris would be best because that's where all the files are archived. If I