How do I read a disk that has WordPerfect documents from a Unix computer on my Windows computer?
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Dartan group-says 'Malacar I'm going to dropkick you for starting that omg Ymir thing'
UNIX - Windows question
The simplest method is to convert them into an intermediate format: rtf or just plain text are both probably best.
If that isn't an option, see if you have AbiWord, OpenOffice, or StarOffice on the Unix system and it should open it directly.
You know how to mount the floppy? (crude jokes aside?)
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Elseenas of No House Worth Mentioning
If that isn't an option, see if you have AbiWord, OpenOffice, or StarOffice on the Unix system and it should open it directly.
You know how to mount the floppy? (crude jokes aside?)
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Elseenas of No House Worth Mentioning
Umm... guys, I think he wants to go the other way around. From UNIX _to_ Windows.
That said, you should just be able to pop the disk in and read it normally. Was it formatted on a windows machine before you used it on the UNIX one?
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Every problem in the universe can be solved by finding the right long-haired prettyboy and beating the crap out of him.
That said, you should just be able to pop the disk in and read it normally. Was it formatted on a windows machine before you used it on the UNIX one?
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Every problem in the universe can be solved by finding the right long-haired prettyboy and beating the crap out of him.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Sarvis:
<B>Umm... guys, I think he wants to go the other way around. From UNIX _to_ Windows.
That said, you should just be able to pop the disk in and read it normally. Was it formatted on a windows machine before you used it on the UNIX one?
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right. it was formated on the unix machine first. basically my mom use to work on a unix machine and has all her word perfect files on a disk from that machine. now she can't read her disk on a windows computer
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Dartan group-says 'Malacar I'm going to dropkick you for starting that omg Ymir thing'
<B>Umm... guys, I think he wants to go the other way around. From UNIX _to_ Windows.
That said, you should just be able to pop the disk in and read it normally. Was it formatted on a windows machine before you used it on the UNIX one?
</B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
right. it was formated on the unix machine first. basically my mom use to work on a unix machine and has all her word perfect files on a disk from that machine. now she can't read her disk on a windows computer
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Dartan group-says 'Malacar I'm going to dropkick you for starting that omg Ymir thing'
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Elseenas:
<B>Why the hell do you have *word perfect* documents on a Unix formatted disk?
Okay, that changes things, what version of Windows are you running?
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i dunno i should ask my mom that. The version of Windows I'm running is WinXP.
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Dartan group-says 'Malacar I'm going to dropkick you for starting that omg Ymir thing'
<B>Why the hell do you have *word perfect* documents on a Unix formatted disk?
Okay, that changes things, what version of Windows are you running?
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i dunno i should ask my mom that. The version of Windows I'm running is WinXP.
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Dartan group-says 'Malacar I'm going to dropkick you for starting that omg Ymir thing'
The first thing you need to know is what kind of file system the unix disk is formatted for. If you know what flavor of unix it came from we can guess pretty easily.
If the unix happens to be linux, this will probably work for you:
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm
If it's not linux, then the second most likely case would be the UFS filesystem which a number of unices use. I don't know of any utilities off the top of my head to access a UFS filesystem under windows. Worst case scenario you could boot with a freebsd/linux floppy and then mount both your windows harddrive and your wordperfect floppy and copy the files over - freebsd and linux both support numerous filesystems, including msdos and ntfs. Windows of course only supports it's own filesystems, in traditional microsoft style.
Also, MS Word can open WordPerfect files, so once you get the files over you shouldn't have a problem there. You probably already knew that.
Tagor
If the unix happens to be linux, this will probably work for you:
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm
If it's not linux, then the second most likely case would be the UFS filesystem which a number of unices use. I don't know of any utilities off the top of my head to access a UFS filesystem under windows. Worst case scenario you could boot with a freebsd/linux floppy and then mount both your windows harddrive and your wordperfect floppy and copy the files over - freebsd and linux both support numerous filesystems, including msdos and ntfs. Windows of course only supports it's own filesystems, in traditional microsoft style.
Also, MS Word can open WordPerfect files, so once you get the files over you shouldn't have a problem there. You probably already knew that.
Tagor
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