On Wednesday 26 January 2005 8:17, Donald E Haselwood wrote:
> Is there a way to read/convert .wps files (MS Works created) in linux?
>
> I have a friend who is just computer literate enough to send emails and he
> occassionally attaches a .wps file. I ask what he used to generate it, and
> he said, "Whatever came with the machine." I found a MS convertor that
> "sort of" converts it for use with Word 97 (one can see the ascii embedded
> in all sorts of garbage special chars), but I haven't run across anything
> on the Linux side.
>
> Don
I don't think that there is a converter for Linux. If there is , I haven't
encountered it yet. After a few people had sent me files with a".wps"
extension and finding that you can't do anything with them if you don't have
MSWorks, I realised that wps was the perfect acronym... what a piece of
s**tware.
Jeff
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