From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 19 04:13:35 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20948106564A for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 04:13:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@larseighner.com) Received: from mail.team1internet.com (mail.team1internet.com [216.110.13.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 004508FC16 for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 04:13:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from larseighner.com (unknown [216.110.13.100]) by mail.team1internet.com (Postfix) with SMTP id C14B316B4AA; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:13:32 -0500 (CDT) Received: by larseighner.com (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 lars@larseighner.com; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:10:22 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:10:16 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner X-X-Sender: lars@noos.6dollardialup.com To: Al Plant In-Reply-To: <4E4DDC75.7020503@hdk5.net> Message-ID: References: <1313705889.77615.YahooMailNeo@web45712.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> <4E4DDC75.7020503@hdk5.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: scott mcclellan , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: new to os X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 04:13:35 -0000 On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, Al Plant wrote: > Aloha Lars, > > You mentioned WP5 in this thread. I have some docs on disks that were created > in WP5. You know any FreeBSD based app like abiword that can read them for > transfer to a contemporary program? I don't know of anything. If I recall correctly, abiword could open such files but made mincemeat of them - perhaps some progress has been made since I last tried. Since I still have my copy of WP5, I run it in dosbox and re-export file to a more widely supported format. This is subject to the limitations of the time, so the conversion of special characters and formating is iffy and tables are almost guaranteed to be a mess. I believe there is a dummy print driver for WP6DOS which prints WP6 documents to disc in pdf or ghostscript which can subsequently be printed to paper (or converted) with modern tools. There might be something similar for WP5, but in both cases this depends on having the original WP program to run in dosbox. Since intellectual property puts meat on my family's table, I naturally would not suggest that pirate copies of WP5 might be on the web somewhere. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266