Opening the message files
Paul Kippes
kippesp at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 10 00:15:56 UTC 2000
--- In HP4GU-FAQ at egroups.com, "Neil Ward" <neilward at d...> wrote:
> I'm being stoooopid, I think.
>
> I want to view the two files that have been completed, but all seem
> to
> I get is gobbledegook - either one line of it, or pages of it, but
no
> words. I've tried opening the files from here, and I've tried
saving
> them to disk and opening them from there. I've tried Word 95 v,
7.0,
> Wordpad and Notepad. I've also tried txt, rich text and doc
formats.
>
> Um - anyone know what's wrong? I'm sure I'm overlooking the
> obvious...
>
> Neil
Neil,
This looks like a Word 97 (or possibly 2000) file. Since I only have
Word 97 (and could open the file), the file converter I posted
(wrd97cnv.exe) should solve the
problem.
Here's another 1 MB file to run your phone bill up.
Paul
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