On 04/19/2009 07:56 AM, Brian Barker wrote: > 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.
<http://word.tips.net/Pages/T000791_Converting_Word_for_DOS_Documents.html#> The ftp is valid: ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/softlib/mslfiles/ wdsupcnv.exe - mentioned in the article - & a bunch more... including win31.exe, win95.exe, wordvue.exe, wordconv.exe, etc. I'm sure that there must be something there that can be used - including the original Word 5 if you can figure out which file it is. 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
