A problem reading files made using Win ME

[Charlie Bress]

This is a question regarding WIN XP and not ME.

A neighbor had a lot of documents on an old PC that used Win ME. They were
generated using Works 4.0.
Now he has a new PC with XP. To transfer his documents from the old box to
the new he burnt them to CDs.
He also had some CDs that had been made on a yet older PC that had Win 95.

The box with XP will correctly read CDs made on the 95 system.
The box with XP will NOT correctly read CDs that were made on the ME box
The CDs can be read and the text is visible, but the formatting is messed up
and there are a lot of miscellaneous characters that were likely old
formatting commands.

Is there a way to set up XP to correctly read the CDs that were generated on
ME?

Charlie

 

[GS]

for the me documents, is there an extra char for every single text
character?
if so, it was in Unicode
you may want to verify with note pad whether the document has the right
leading characters. sorry I don't recall what it should be

also you need to determine the version of Microsoft works in the new pc home
if that's what was used to read the .wps document. you may want trying to
read with xp's wordpad and if available Microsoft word version 97, Microsoft
word 2000

or get some utility to convert

potential references:
Download details: Works Converter for Import/Export of Works Word ...

1.. Microsoft Works 6-9 File Converter
2.. Works 2000 Converter for Word 97/2000 Users
3.. Office File Converter Pack

 

[Charlie Bress]

All the files were written with and are trying to be read with Works 4.0