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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