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From: Alice_LJ on 30 Jul 2008 23:38

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From: Bigfoot508 on 31 Jul 2008 05:53
It looks like these files were backed up in 1994. I will have to check
my old W95 computer and see what version of DOS that it has. It
originally had Windows 3.1 on it. I suspect that my W98 has version 6

js

Sjouke Burry wrote:
> Jim Carter wrote:
>> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:44:53 -0500, Bigfoot508 <foxy(a)nospam.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a bunch of floppy disks that have a backup of some data
>>> created with a program called Lotus 1-2-3. Each floppy has 2 files
>>> on it. The first has a file called Backup.001 and another called
>>> Control.001.
>>
>> Spreadsheet program likely for either DOS or very early windows. That
>> is one backup, not several. Try using Excel.
> I forgot to tel, you have to install those dos-versions,
> because the tools did a test for the right command.com version.
From: H on 31 Jul 2008 10:52
You could have a shot at looking at those floppies with Quickview (Plus)
(opens most files)
"Bigfoot508" <foxy(a)nospam.com> wrote in message
news:Mh5kk.15204$cW3.12610(a)nlpi064.nbdc.sbc.com...
> First, let me apologize, this is not an XP question but I don't know where
> to go with it and I have found the readers on this group helpful in the
> past.
>
> I have a bunch of floppy disks that have a backup of some data created
> with a program called Lotus 1-2-3. Each floppy has 2 files on it. The
> first has a file called Backup.001 and another called Control.001. The
> second floppy has the same named files but with extension .002. The rest
> are the same with extensions .003, .004, etc. I don't have Lotus 1-2-3
> software and if I did, I might have to run it on DOS. My old W98 computer
> has DOS. Is there any way to restore this backup to a file that could be
> opened with another program.
>
> Thanks,
>
> js

From: Bigfoot508 on 1 Aug 2008 08:50
What I have managed to do so far is to join the files from the floppys
into one file with no extension. I used a tiny stand alone program
called "HJ Split" that allows you to either split up large files or
combine file fragments into one big file. I tried to associate the
extensionless file with wordpad and only succeeded in opening a page of
gibberish. Does anyone have any ideas how to associate the file with
some other program? I don't have Excel. I do have Works.

Also, I have disks for some program called "Ami Pro 3.1" that I got with
the Lotus disks. Is there any chance that this program could be used to
read the file?

JAS

Sjouke Burry wrote:
> Jim Carter wrote:
>> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:44:53 -0500, Bigfoot508 <foxy(a)nospam.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a bunch of floppy disks that have a backup of some data
>>> created with a program called Lotus 1-2-3. Each floppy has 2 files
>>> on it. The first has a file called Backup.001 and another called
>>> Control.001.
>>
>> Spreadsheet program likely for either DOS or very early windows. That
>> is one backup, not several. Try using Excel.
> The filenames point to a formal dos backup.
> To cause a lot of problems, MS decided to use a different
> backup method in each new dos version.
> Try 3.xx 4.xx 5.xx and 6.22, one of them should do it.
> If I remember correctly, 6.22 used a (bought) backuptool
> like pctools,quite unlike previous versions, so try
> version 4 and 5 first.
From: relic on 1 Aug 2008 10:12
Bigfoot508 wrote:
> First, let me apologize, this is not an XP question but I don't know
> where to go with it and I have found the readers on this group helpful
> in the past.
>
> I have a bunch of floppy disks that have a backup of some data created
> with a program called Lotus 1-2-3. Each floppy has 2 files on it. The
> first has a file called Backup.001 and another called
> Control.001. The second floppy has the same named files but with
> extension .002. The rest are the same with extensions .003, .004,
> etc. I don't have Lotus 1-2-3 software and if I did, I might have to
> run it on DOS. My old W98 computer has DOS. Is there any way to
> restore this backup to a file that could be opened with another
> program.

They're old MS Backups. GOOGLE!
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Backup.001+&btnG=Google+Search



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