[ale] WPS Format documents

[Nathan J. Underwood]

Is it by chance an IBM laptop?  If so, depending on the age, there 
should be a little blue button on it that'll rebuild everything.  Now, 
it may hose the *nix side of things (I really can't be sure), but it's 
generally pretty good about restoring the Win32 side.
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Nathan J. Underwood
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BruceG wrote:
> 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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