[Gllug] Reading M$ files

[Rich Walker]

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.



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