has a whole new wordpad installed compared to older versions....
>>Use WordPad to open if you don't have a system with Write on it (the Windows 95/98 version of Write was just a shell that called WordPad with the correct parameters).>>>
If you have an older W3.1 or WFW version of windows floating around, you can actually copy the write.exe file to your system and use it to view the files, then save them in XP's wordpad with a copy/paste. The files for W3.1 and WFW were on floppy disks and not inside .cab type files at all so they were easy to locate.
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Does anyone know how to open (filter?) old Microsoft Write files (.wri) in Open Office? Word Pad in XP gives me some giberish. Thanks

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