[ale] WPS Format documents

[Jonathan Glass]

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Think you could get Wine to run them from the harddrive on which they
live?
  
Install Wine & configure WINE
Mount old drive ReadOnly
Launch Microsoft Works from the Readonly partition

Just a thought.

Jonathan Glass

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
BruceG
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 10:34 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: [ale] WPS Format documents

Hey all,

	My wife and son's WinXP laptop will not boot into WinXP at all - not
even in safe mode. It is seriously hosed. It's a dual-boot laptop,
and can start up in SuSE 9.1 Pro with no problems. I can read the
WinXP NTFS partition. I've saved some critical docs to an external
drive. Problem is, I can't read them. 
KWord doesn't know how to handle .wps. OpenOffice can't open them
properly. I tried on my W2K office laptop, and Word2K can't open the
WPS documents. Any recommendations? I think it's Microsoft Works
format.

	If I could figure out how to open and edit the documents, I'd just
leave WinXP busted and stick with SuSE 9.1 (provided I could get
wireless working). 

	Alternatively - and I know this is off-topic - does anyone know how
to restore a WinXP OEM system that was not shipped with Emergency
start-up CDs or any software on CD at all? I'd hate to go buy that
software when there is a better alternative already working on the
laptop (except for Linksys WP54G wireless).
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