On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 08:01:11PM -0500, Donald E Haselwood wrote:
> Steven,
>
> Thanks for the offer. The conversion I did from .wps to Word 97 got me the
> ascii (surrouned by crap). I was hoping that linux/gnu had something better
> out there.
>
> Don
>
> On Thursday 27 January 2005 07:34, Steven Buehler wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > The only products that I know will convert Microsoft Works word processor
> > files (besides Works itself) are Word, WordPerfect for Windows, and Lotus
> > Word Pro. All are Windows products (unless you're using Crossover).
> >
> > If you still need a conversion come next week's Brandon meeting, let me
> > know and I'll make sure I bring both laptops with me (my iBook *and* my
> > ThinkPad).
> >
> > Ideally, they need to save it from Works as a Word file. It would make
> > life much easier.
We've had a lot of clients send us a lot of word processing files over
the years, and Works is the bane of our existence. I don't know why
Microsoft came out with this package. It was primarily sold on low-end
units where they didn't want to ship a full version of office. Seems
like it would have been better to simply turn off features from Office
and call it "Office Lite" instead of coming up with a crappy multi-use
office package that was incompatible with nearly everything else.
Microsoft is really bad about using nearly random undocumented file
formats that it changes with each new revision of the software (and
fails to maintain full backward compatibility). Works has database
component that is similarly incompatible.
Because it was only sold on the cheapest of computers and wasn't
compatible with anything else, it's no wonder there's no conversion
solution for Linux. We tell clients (nicely) to get a real word
processor.
Paul
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