[Hidden-tech] Word Perfect

[Robert Heller]

If all that is wanted is the *text*, it should be possible to use the
UNIX/Linux "strings" program. (If you don't have a Linux machine available,
strings is also available under MacOSX as a command line program in a terminal
window.)

This program will dump out anything in the file that looks like ASCII text.

The formatting, etc. will be lost, but at least the raw text can be extracted 
and imported into a word processor program (eg MS-Word).  This will get nearly 
all of the text if the documents are in English (and probably any language 
using the Latin alphabet).  Some characters might be lost (eg some punctuation 
characters, etc.), but they can generally be infered from the context.

At Tue, 26 Sep 2023 12:02:49 -0400 Annamarie Pluhar <annamarie at PatientSympatheticCoaching.com> wrote:

> 
> Tried that. Didn't work. Corrupted file?
> 
> Annamarie Pluhar
> [Patient, Sympathetic Coaching](http://patientsympatheticcoaching.com)
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> On 26 Sep 2023, at 11:13, Rich at tnr via Hidden-discuss wrote:
> 
> > Try LibreOffice - it does a pretty good job openning older formats
> >
> > https://www.libreoffice.org/
> >
> >
> > On 9/26/2023 10:48 AM, Annamarie Pluhar via Hidden-discuss wrote:
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> So I have a client who has old files in WordPerfect. They were pulled 
> >> off a crashed machine and I tried to open them on a Windows 11 
> >> machine. I tried Word, downloaded the new version of WP and tried 
> >> that. Nada. Tried an online conversion tool. That didn’t work 
> >> either.
> >>
> >> The question is whether her files are corrupted* or are her files so 
> >> old that an even older copy of WP is required than what the current 
> >> word processors can handle?
> >>
> >> *when they open I just see lots of characters.
> >>
> >> Thanks for your expertise.
> >> Annamarie
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