At 20:55 18/04/2009 -0400, S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote:
Do you know how to get .doc files from MS Word 5.x for DOS opened in
OpenOffice or converted to something OpenOffice will open, with the
formatting mostly intact?
At 09:33 19/04/2009 -0400, S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote:
I use OpenOffice 3.1.0 and 2.4.1 in OS X and Linux.
I have two suggestions, though - sadly - I suspect neither may be of much use.
1. It seems that Microsoft, when faced with the need to provide a
Y2K patch for Word 5 for DOS and presumably because the product was
even then very out of date, chose to make a corrected version of it
available free of charge. This still seems to be available at
http://download.microsoft.com/download/word97win/Wd55_be/97/WIN98/EN-US/Wd55_ben.exe
(or http://tinyurl.com/65puu ). (You will want to confirm the
licence conditions of this product for yourself.)
You can run this in a DOS box under Windows, of course, and I
understand that you may also be able to do something similar under OS
X or Linux. What I don't know is what you can do once you have
opened your documents in this. Since it is a DOS product with a text
screen, you presumably cannot usefully copy and paste into OpenOffice
or anything with a similar graphic interface. But you may be able to
save your documents in some other format which can then be opened in
(or staged to) OpenOffice.
2. A converter for Word 5 for DOS files exists which can be used
from versions of Word for Windows. This is called DOSWRD32.CNV. It
seems that this may no longer be available from Microsoft, but you
may be able to find it elsewhere. This could be installed in a
Windows version of Word (or perhaps even the Windows Word Viewer?) by
adding it to the appropriate folder - probably \Program Files\Common
Files\Microsoft Shared\TextConv. If you can get access to a Windows
installation of Word (or the Word Viewer?) you may be able to use
this to copy and paste material into OpenOffice or else to save the
documents in some more helpful interchange format.
I suspect this may not help: sorry.
Brian Barker
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