[ale] WPS Format documents

[Richard]

On Tuesday 07 December 2004 03:29 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 15:15, BruceG wrote:
> >>On Tuesday 07 December 2004 15:07, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> >>>As someone else suggested, the answer is AbiWord. It will read
> >>>those MSWorks files. It is the only reason I keep it around --
> >>>otherwise I use OpenOffice.
> >>
> >>I had no joy with AbiWord in SuSE 9.1 Pro reading the saved docs. I'll
> >> check filters for AbiWord to see if I'm missing some.

Bruce, you're not alone.  I just googled for .wps docs and got a lot of 
hits with people complaing of the same thing!  One sage suggested this:

Anyway, microsoft has a converter called wp6rtf.exe. You 
can find it at this link.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?
FamilyID=b9e11e83-f51b-4977-b572-
8c042df802c1&DisplayLang=en

or http://tinyurl.com/mj73

It looks like they did change the format when they did XP.  To bad.  I did 
see a converter selling for 1000 Pounds +.  guess in England they have a 
lot of problems and can pay dearly for their mistakes.

Richard
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