[Gllug] Reading M$ files

[Ade McGonigle]

Rich

more rubbish from me, I know access would be the obviouls to open a db file
but just found this link about converting works files, blah blah

Works is that cheap cut down version of Office that lots of PC manufacturers
bundle with there new shiney puters

Ade


-----Original Message-----
From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
Of Rich Walker
Sent: 17 September 2001 20:12
To: gllug at linux.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Reading M$ files


In message <20010917195837.A9390 at cornerstonelinux.co.uk>
          John Edwards <john_ed at cornerstonelinux.co.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 07:26:23PM +0100, Rich Walker wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We've been handed a Microsoft Works 2000 file, extension .wdb
>
> I thought that Word 2000 still used the same .doc extension and
> file format as Word 97.

Works, not word. Some wierd format.

>
> ".wdb" is not listed as a recognised file extension on my NT4
> virtual machine with Office 2000.

Okay, so it's probably incompatible with their other stuff.

>
> > Nothing (abiword, StarOffice, ...) seems to want to read it.
> >
> > Anyone got any ideas?
> >
> > cheers,Rich.
>
> Try "string FILENAME | less" to look at the ASCII dump and search for
> some thing like (Word.Document.8), indicating Word v8 (aka Word 97).

First two lines of strings:

Microsoft Works
MSWorksDBDoc

> If you can't figure it out you could always return to sender and ask
> for something in English (or ASCII).

Yeah, but that'll take a few weeks, and we could do with the data
before that... f'ing markting ppl...


cheers,Rich.



--
Rich Walker: rw at shadow.org.uk (Shadow Robot Project)
http://www.shadow.org.uk        251 Liverpool Road
+44(0)171 700 2487                London  N1 1LX
"Sometimes after an electrical storm I see in 5 dimensions"
  -- Cornfed Pig,  Duckman.

--
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at linux.co.uk
http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug



-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at linux.co.uk
http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug