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Hi everyone,
I've got some floppies (yes, floppies! given me by a co-worker) that have some docs on them that are not in a format natively recognized in Leopard. They show up as Unix executable files. I've tried opening them in Word, and they will open (using the "recover text from any file" option), but without any of the native formatting, and with a lot of artifacts and formatting problems.
How to open these and retain all the original formatting? I've been trying to figure out which app they were created in, and the only thing I can find in the files that might give a hint -- they mention MacWorks. Was that an old word processing app?
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That's REALLY old...
I suspect that appleworks would open them...
[edit to actually answer a question]
macworks was an all in one app like appleworks
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Hmmmm... Appleworks doesn't seem to recognize them either...
Edit: though I'm using Appleworks 5 under Sheepshaver on my MBP, not sure if that would make a difference...
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well then there's that really big conversion app that use to come with macs a long time ago. I can't remember what it's called, but it can do this for you...maybe you need to start a new thread to ask folks the name of the app. Someone will remember it.
edit - google is our friend
the app is called MacLinkPlus
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Hmmmm, yeah, I vaguely remember MacLinkPlus. I'll ask the co-worker if she can possibly remember what she used to create the file ... I can't imagine it was anything THAT exotic...
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no - you misunderstand... maclinkplus is a conversion app - it can convert just about anything to just about anything else...
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I have a copy of MacLinkPlus on the office computer - if you want me to try, PM me and I will send you my addy.
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hal, yeah, I got your meaning... and I have a copy of MacLinkPlus here somewhere... not sure where though. I'll try when I get home, and can use the QS instead of MBP... the Intel isn't making this any easier.
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Hmmmm... a bit more research, and I see that these are MSWK / RLRB creator / type files... some Googling tells me that they are MS Works 4.0 files. Yuck ...
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I just put my box of Works 4.0 diskettes in the go-to-auction bin. Could retrieve them i you'd like, but MSWK might require OS9 to run.
