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Thread ID: 16738	2002-03-16 10:34:00	Greetings...A little help please	Guest (0)	Press F1

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39432	2002-03-16 10:34:00	hi. I have a friend that had an old Canon word processor and saved text files to floppy disc. When reading them in a pc, it reads and opens the floppy discs fine, but comes up with a whole lot of various signs and codes. Anyone know how i can decode these word documents so my friend can attach read them? Thanks for all your help. -RQ	Guest (0)
39433	2002-03-16 10:50:00	What format are they saved in. JM	Guest (0)
39434	2002-03-17 07:39:00	Which Model? Most of all the Canon wordprocessors used there own proprietry lanuage and is incompatable with DOS. Only some of the later machines had an option to export to the like if a .txt or .doc format. ==Orac==	Guest (0)
39435	2002-03-17 08:04:00	From your post I gather that you get the text interspersed with garbage. The garbage is presumably Word's (or whatever you are opening the files in) interpretation of Canon's formatting codes. In view of the earlier responses regarding file formats, if you don't get a quick fix here is a long shot that might be worth a try. Open a file in Word or similar, and save it as text only. This will strip the file of formatting codes so if the Canon codes are recognised as such with luck they will be stripped leaving you with just the text.	Guest (0)
39436	2002-03-18 03:29:00	Somewhere in my heap of 'interesting' old boxes, I have an old word processor. It has an 8086 processor, a 720k 3.5' drive, and DOS 1 in ROM. DOS boots, runs an AUTOEXEC.BAT file which loads and starts WordPro (also from ROM). It is standard Word Pro. I don't remember whose name is on the box. With the Canon disks, it would be a good idea to 'Open As' with each of the choices in Word, just in case one does work. It might be worth downloading one of the old shareware word processors from Simtel. One of them might have the appropriate file type as input.	Guest (0)
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