On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Brian Barker wrote:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/word97win/Wd55_be/97/WIN98/EN-US/Wd55_ben.exe
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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.
Thanks! I did get to this before but failed to run it with wine. I has Word 5.1 before so I probably eligible for the license. I will try it again as soon as I get DOS works using dosbox or other PC emulator.
However, I guess the best it can do is to safe it to RTF, and try to open the RTF in OpenOffice. Assuming the RTF from that era is similar enough to the RTF used in OpenOffice, I might get some formatting out of it. The best I can get, though. :-( If Microsoft did the same thing with Word 6 for DOS, that will be ideal. :-)
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.
Apparently Microsoft officially pulled the file contain that converter, as can be read from the URL http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/xp/appndx/appa09.htm - redirected to http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/orkXP/HA011362831033.aspx The Oconvpck.exe mentioned there does not include Word 5.x format. Even if I can get the file, will the fact that officially Microsoft has pulled it out means that it is illegal to use the "program" inside that file?
Futhermore, I still need to run MS Word. Kind of beat the purpose of running OpenOffice so I don't need to purchase MS Word (or run it illegally), right?
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