Hey Ron! Hmm, I dunno, but it looks to me like your best bet is to find a friend with a Win9X machine with Word97 or higher installed. Then, ask them if they would mind very much if you had them or if they let you view the document with their machine. Then convert that thing to maybe RTF (rich text format)or if possible to plain ASCII text. Word97 and higher produce much bulkier (bloated) documents than the predecessors, and so far I've been unable to view a document created with these versions in DOS. Hehe, I even tried using the old Word 5.5 for DOS, while it did open part of a document, the formatting information is at the front of the documents (tells Word97 etc. what font to use, DLLs, etc) and finally finding the actual text of the document took a while. Your file being 2.2 mbytes may contain not only format information, but quite possibly graphics files (BMPs). Sorry not much more help. The problem is going to be transfer of this size file...a lot of email systems don't allow files over 1 mbyte...may need to use a file splitter tool and split it into 2 pieces, then copy each piece to a diskette, then head for your Win9X friend! I'd also recommend buying this friend the cold beverage of choice for use of the machine, but that's just my opinion...hehe! C U L8R! Wiz Wizard57M http://msnhomepages.talkcity.com/RightWay/wizard57m/index.html _______________________________________________________ Say Bye to Slow Internet! http://www.home.com/xinbox/signup.html To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
