Converting old Display-write Files - Democratic Underground

Hokie

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Fri Feb-11-05 09:13 PM
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Converting old Display-write Files

Can any suggest a way to convert some older documents done in IBM Display-write 4? I tossed the DW4 program disks years ago. MS Word had a converter for DW4 up through about Word 6.0. I used to have the disks for Word 6 but I think I pitched them in the last cleaning cycle. I am not even sure Word 6 will run in Win 2000 or XP.

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trotsky

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Fri Feb-11-05 09:49 PM
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1. Try Quick View Plus.

It can open virtually anything.

http://www.avantstar.com/intradoc-cgi/idc_cgi_isapi.dll?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&ssDocName=QuickViewPlusOverview

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charlie

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Fri Feb-11-05 10:24 PM
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2. This one

will convert them to Word97 format:

http://www.aia-itp.com/link.php?href=/products/o2o_info.html
http://www.aia-itp.com/link.php?href=/products/o2o_order.html

The demo is free for unlimited use, the only restriction is that it'll only batch-convert 10 documents at a time. You'll have to register however, to download the program.

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Hokie

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Sun Feb-13-05 01:58 PM
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4. Did not work

I downloaded this software and it did not work with Display-write files.

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Hokie

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Sat Feb-12-05 10:40 AM
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3. Thanks for the suggestions

Edited on Sat Feb-12-05 10:41 AM by Hokie

I think I found another way to do it. I found an old copy of Lotus Smart suite 96. I remembered that IBM had bought Lotus. I installed it and lo and behold it will read IBM Display-write documents. It does barely run under Windows 2000. I can save them as Word 97 documents. Sort of slow so I may investigate the batch converter. I only have about 50 or so and many of them can be trashed. Thanks for the help.

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