{SPAM?} Re: [SLUG] {SPAM?} How read MS Works .wps files

From: Donald E Haselwood (dhaselwood@verizon.net)
Date: Thu Jan 27 2005 - 20:01:11 EST


Steven,

Thanks for the offer. The conversion I did from .wps to Word 97 got me the
ascii (surrouned by crap). I was hoping that linux/gnu had something better
out there.

Don

On Thursday 27 January 2005 07:34, Steven Buehler wrote:
> > I don't think that there is a converter for Linux. If there is , I
> > haven't encountered it yet. After a few people had sent me files with
> > a".wps" extension and finding that you can't do anything with them if you
> > don't have
> > MSWorks, I realised that wps was the perfect acronym... what a piece of
> > s**tware.
>
> The only products that I know will convert Microsoft Works word processor
> files (besides Works itself) are Word, WordPerfect for Windows, and Lotus
> Word Pro. All are Windows products (unless you're using Crossover).
>
> If you still need a conversion come next week's Brandon meeting, let me
> know and I'll make sure I bring both laptops with me (my iBook *and* my
> ThinkPad).
>
> Ideally, they need to save it from Works as a Word file. It would make
> life much easier.
>
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