Please help opening an old Freehand file.

[Ken Sp.]

A very good friend that has lost her husband needs to open an old 2004 Freehand file. I am not sure if it was from Classic or OSX.
It is stored on a Zip disc and and I can see and move it. The problem is that in "Get info" it, and all the other Freehand files have no suffix or file type after the . and the show up as Unix Executable File in kind. The Zip disc looks to be Fat32 even though they were used exclusively on Mac.

Do I need classic-or what?

Please, I will try anything

[wave rider]

On a whim, I tried opening a Freehand MX sample file with Illustrator CS3. I'm presented with a FreeHand Import Options dialog box. There are some exceptions that it won't import (some patterns and so on) but it looks like you can pull information out of the file.

=wr=

[jdc]

that was my thought -- illustrator may open it

[deckeda]

Ken, what apps have you tried?

[steve...]

I tried opening a Freehand 9 file with Illustrator CS2 and it opened just fine.

[jdc]

i got it, opened in CS 3 no sweat

[Mike V]

I love happy endings.