Sbradley

You'll love this one.

My wife has rather a lot of old wp files she still needs to use and edit. They were created in Wordstar 5.5. That's a DOS word processor.

Now all her newer stuff is in Word. No problem there. But Wordstar doesn't work very well under Virtual PC, is a bit limited under XP and won't run at all under Vista.

Wordstar files don't open properly in any modern application I've found - formatting and spacing is all screwed up and non printing commands (fonts, page breaks etc) all appear as text.

Anyone know of a halfway house that will open it as a DOS file and allow me to save as something Word will recognise, retaining the formatting etc?

I've tried Word Perfect, AmiPro, Open Office, Word (every version I can find) and had no luck. Don't really cae about the platform, either.

Ideally someone has an old version of Wordstar for Windows but I reckon I might be pushing my luck...

SB

Sbradley

OK, that's typical. 5 minutes after posting I find a converter online that seems to work.

I know I tried it before because I already had it on my hard drive. Maybe I didn't install it right before, but it does the business now, anyway.

Believe it or not it's free from Microsoft...

SB

Pete The Biker

Aint it always so? Lol


Pete The Biker

Shark Man

If you still have problems with the converter, an alternate tact is to get wordstar running on a DOS computer, then see if it can save documents as ".rtf" files (rich text format). 99% of word processors should be able to work with that.