I have tried opening them with Notepad and such. It doesn't seem to
work. But I will try downloading the Xywrite III files I see posted
and try that.
Fortunately, I do have an old computer with working 5.25 floppy drive
and 3.5" diskette drive which I could copy the files to and then transfer
to a
newer computer to use with whatever Xywrite program I download.
Thanks
----- Original Message -----
From: Carl Distefano
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 11:56
AM
Subject: Re: Resurrection of
XyWrite?
Reply to note from "steve reinemer" <stevereinemer@xxxxxxxx>
Sun,
6 Sep 2009 10:31:39 -0700
> Anybody out there know where I
can get a copy of the Xywrite II
> program or compatible? I've got old
floppies with family files
> on them that I can't read because I don't
have the program
> files. Will Xywrite III open
them?
XyWrite files are Ascii, so if accessing the data is the
main
concern, you should be able to open and read the files with any
text
editor (Notepad, Wordpad, etc.), or indeed with any
word-processing
program. Of course, any XyWrite formatting commands in
those files
will be displayed as raw text, not translated into actual
formatting
on the screen. To view or print the files with formatting,
any
version of XyWrite will do.
The bigger problem may be finding a
floppy drive that will read
those diskettes. There are external USB drives
that will read 3.5"
diskettes, but 5.25" floppies may be more of a
challenge.
--
Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxx