Tuesday, April 1, 2003
Recovering WordPerfect files
Does anyone know where I can get a program to read WordPerfect files?
I just discovered a bunch of my old articles from CHIP magazine in 1999, all saved using WordPerfect for Linux. I'd like to look at them again, but neither OpenOffice nor MS Office:mac will open WordPerfect files. I can't find a viewer anywhere online. All the links that Google throws up are dead.
The OpenOffice.org site says StarOffice 6.0 can open WP files but the filters are proprietary and therefore not in OOo. Does this mean they'll open with StarOffice 5.1? I have a copy of that lying around somewhere. And what about MS Office for Windows? Does it support WordPerfect import anymore?
Any pointers will be appreciated. I'd like to recover those articles before everything related to WordPerfect is lost to bit rot.
I just discovered a bunch of my old articles from CHIP magazine in 1999, all saved using WordPerfect for Linux. I'd like to look at them again, but neither OpenOffice nor MS Office:mac will open WordPerfect files. I can't find a viewer anywhere online. All the links that Google throws up are dead.
The OpenOffice.org site says StarOffice 6.0 can open WP files but the filters are proprietary and therefore not in OOo. Does this mean they'll open with StarOffice 5.1? I have a copy of that lying around somewhere. And what about MS Office for Windows? Does it support WordPerfect import anymore?
Any pointers will be appreciated. I'd like to recover those articles before everything related to WordPerfect is lost to bit rot.
frozenaftermath — Apr 1, 2003 10:43:53 PM — # ↩
at: http://acmfiles.csusb.edu/corel/wpmac.html
Kiran Jonnalagadda — Apr 2, 2003 8:28:07 AM — # ↩
I just discovered that AbiWord has WordPerfect import filters that work perfectly so downloaded that. Unfortunately the Mac version's filters are broken, so I finally ended up doing the conversion using MS Word on Windows.
frozenaftermath — Apr 2, 2003 6:48:34 PM — # ↩
24 MB non-resuming download. Ouch!: yup... that is what happens when you get fattened on a leased lines that are almost 1.5 mbps wide ;-)