How to view old Wordpad documents?

mur wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 15:29:24 -0500, wrote:

On 29 Jan 2015, mur wrote in alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt:

As far as I know, Wordpad format has been the same all
along.

I wish!!!

You should read the Wikipedia article about Wordpad. It explains the
formats in good detail. You can still open any Wordpad document, though
not always with Wordpad. There are good reasons for that and easy
workarounds.

That's what I'm hoping to eventually learn about. I've only been trying on and
off for about 4 years though...no big hurry. But I do hope they don't do it
again.
M$ is well known for changing backup/restore file format/program
_every_ time there was a DOS version change.
Better bet on changes - they force users to upgrade and toss
perfectly good and useful software.

On Thu, 05 Feb 2015 16:47:50 -0500, Nil wrote:

On 05 Feb 2015, mur wrote in alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt:

On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 15:29:24 -0500, Nil
wrote:

You should read the Wikipedia article about Wordpad. It explains
the formats in good detail. You can still open any Wordpad
document, though not always with Wordpad. There are good reasons
for that and easy workarounds.

That's what I'm hoping to eventually learn about. I've only been
trying on and off for about 4 years though...no big hurry. But I
do hope they don't do it again.

It would take you less than 5 minutes to read the article.

Or, you could continue to whine about it for another 4 years.

I can do both. Word Viewer opens them sort of, but it sux and takes a long time
to open what it's able to open. So I'll keep trying to find something worth
using. It's not my fault I couldn't find out what to use in any of these ngs.

On Thu, 22 Jan 2015 23:27:00 -0500, SC Tom wrote:

... Write was the old program in early Windows
until it became WordPad in Win95 ...

Unfortunately, it's not that Write *became* WordPad, it's that Write *got*
*replaced by* WordPad ... and WordPad never did a terribly workmanlike job
when opening Write files (though it did try to, semi-valiantly).

Cheers, -- tlvp
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