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From: Sinner on 1 Aug 2008 10:28

"Bigfoot508" <foxy(a)nospam.com> wrote in message
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> 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?

Ami Pro was Lotus's word processor, I believe. I doubt that it will open
your files.


From: JG on 1 Aug 2008 12:19

from "Sinner"
> "Bigfoot508"

> > 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?

> Ami Pro was Lotus's word processor, I believe. I doubt that it will open
> your files.

It certainly won't read them now he's joined the two parts together!

As has already been said, they are old MS Backup files and the only way
to recover them is to insert the floppy in any PC running the correct
version of DOS - 4, 5, 6, 6.22 ??? - (though it may also have a
version of Windows [up to 98SE or possibly 2000] installed) and then
run the Restore Program that is built in. That will need the two
separate files which it will convert from the compressed format
currently on the floppy to however many files there were originally and
save them to the hard disc from whence they can be viewed in a current
version of Excel (assuming that Lotus is not available).

JG
From: Sinner on 1 Aug 2008 14:13

"JG" <jg(a)crescentcomputing.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
>
> It certainly won't read them now he's joined the two parts together!
>
> As has already been said, they are old MS Backup files and the only way
> to recover them is to insert the floppy in any PC running the correct
> version of DOS - 4, 5, 6, 6.22 ??? - (though it may also have a
> version of Windows [up to 98SE or possibly 2000] installed) and then
> run the Restore Program that is built in. That will need the two
> separate files which it will convert from the compressed format
> currently on the floppy to however many files there were originally and
> save them to the hard disc from whence they can be viewed in a current
> version of Excel (assuming that Lotus is not available).
>


Unless he just enjoys the exercise in futility, I can't see the point in
trying to restore data this old. If it were important, it would have been
kept up to date.


From: relic on 1 Aug 2008 14:20
Sinner wrote:
> "JG" <jg(a)crescentcomputing.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:31303030333139304893459B45(a)crescentcomputing.co.uk...
>>
>>
>> It certainly won't read them now he's joined the two parts together!
>>
>> As has already been said, they are old MS Backup files and the only
>> way to recover them is to insert the floppy in any PC running the
>> correct version of DOS - 4, 5, 6, 6.22 ??? - (though it may also
>> have a version of Windows [up to 98SE or possibly 2000] installed) and
>> then run the Restore Program that is built in. That will need
>> the two separate files which it will convert from the compressed
>> format currently on the floppy to however many files there were
>> originally and save them to the hard disc from whence they can be
>> viewed in a current version of Excel (assuming that Lotus is not
>> available).
>
>
> Unless he just enjoys the exercise in futility, I can't see the point
> in trying to restore data this old. If it were important, it would
> have been kept up to date.

And it illustrates why one shouldn't use MS Backup programs; the data isn't
compatible with newer versions.


From: Sinner on 1 Aug 2008 14:52

"relic" <relic2(a)cjb.net> wrote in message
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> And it illustrates why one shouldn't use MS Backup programs; the data
> isn't compatible with newer versions.
>
>

I was under the impression that they were backups made by Lotus 123. Of
course, I've been known to be ignorant of the truth in the past.


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