On Wed, 15 Dec 2021 at 23:59:55, inter naughtfull
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itchyne...@hotmail.com> wrote (my responses usually follow points
raised):
>Hi,
>
>I have a few important files written in .WRI on a Win98 system
Are you sure? I thought .wri was created by Write on Windows 3.1, and
'9x onwards came with Wordpad (though I think the earlier versions -
'95, and possibly '98 - could _read_ the files). I think '95 and
possibly even '98 did _have_ a file _called_ write.exe (or similar), but
it was actually just a shortcut to Wordpad.
I remember - just out of pig-headedness! - copying write.exe (or
whatever it was) from a 3.1 system to a later one (I might have had to
rename it), and it actually ran as before. (Probably won't run on XP or
later [16-bit? or even 8-bit? software?].)
>that has since disintegrated, and when I try to open them with
>
>Microsoft Works/XP
>Windows 10
>Windows XP Wordpad
No, I think XP Wordpad is different to '95 Wordpad.
>
>The file corrupts near the end into gibberish characters.
>I would like to recover the files in completion.
>
>Is buying an Ebay Notebook with WIN98 the only way?
VM (virtual machine) maybe? (-:
>
>Thanks,
>
>itchy
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