Is buying an Ebay Notebook with WIN98 the only way?
The file corrupts near the end into gibberish characters.
Hi,
I have a few important files written in .WRI on a Win98 system
that has since disintegrated, and when I try to open them with
Microsoft Works/XP
Windows 10
Windows XP Wordpad
The file corrupts near the end into gibberish characters.
I would like to recover the files in completion.
Is buying an Ebay Notebook with WIN98 the only way?
Thanks,--
itchy
On Wed, 15 Dec 2021 at 23:59:55, inter naughtfull <itchyneebanshee@hotmail.com> wrote (my responses usually follow points raised):
Hi,
I have a few important files written in .WRI on a Win98 system
Are you sure? I thought .wri was created by Write on Windows 3.1, and
'9x onwards came with Wordpad (though I think the earlier versions -
'95, and possibly '98 - could _read_ the files). I think '95 and
possibly even '98 did _have_ a file _called_ write.exe (or similar), but
it was actually just a shortcut to Wordpad.
I remember - just out of pig-headedness! - copying write.exe (or
whatever it was) from a 3.1 system to a later one (I might have had to
rename it), and it actually ran as before. (Probably won't run on XP or
later [16-bit? or even 8-bit? software?].)
that has since disintegrated, and when I try to open them with
Microsoft Works/XP
Windows 10
Windows XP Wordpad
No, I think XP Wordpad is different to '95 Wordpad.
The file corrupts near the end into gibberish characters.
I would like to recover the files in completion.
Is buying an Ebay Notebook with WIN98 the only way?
VM (virtual machine) maybe? (-:
Thanks,
itchy
On Thu, 16 Dec 2021 15:44:46 +0000, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
On Wed, 15 Dec 2021 at 23:59:55, inter naughtfull
<itchyne...@hotmail.com> wrote (my responses usually follow points raised):
Hi,
I have a few important files written in .WRI on a Win98 system
Are you sure? I thought .wri was created by Write on Windows 3.1, and
'9x onwards came with Wordpad (though I think the earlier versions -
'95, and possibly '98 - could _read_ the files). I think '95 and
possibly even '98 did _have_ a file _called_ write.exe (or similar), but it was actually just a shortcut to Wordpad.
I remember - just out of pig-headedness! - copying write.exe (orWindows 98's WORDPAD.EXE is 32-bit, runs on Windows 10 64-bit, and
whatever it was) from a 3.1 system to a later one (I might have had to rename it), and it actually ran as before. (Probably won't run on XP or later [16-bit? or even 8-bit? software?].)
can read old .WRI files. (It will not write files in .WRI format).
that has since disintegrated, and when I try to open them with
Microsoft Works/XP
Windows 10
Windows XP Wordpad
No, I think XP Wordpad is different to '95 Wordpad.
The file corrupts near the end into gibberish characters.
I would like to recover the files in completion.
Is buying an Ebay Notebook with WIN98 the only way?
VM (virtual machine) maybe? (-:Win98 can be installed and run in a WMware Player VM.
Thanks,
itchy
--
Kind regards
Ralph
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Hi,
I have a few important files written in .WRI on a Win98 system
that has since disintegrated, and when I try to open them with
Microsoft Works/XP
Windows 10
Windows XP Wordpad
The file corrupts near the end into gibberish characters.
I would like to recover the files in completion.
Is buying an Ebay Notebook with WIN98 the only way?
Thanks,
itchy
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