Re: File recovery help needed (Alabama)

[Geoff Oltmans via cctalk]

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> On Jun 23, 2017, at 11:19 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 23 Jun 2017, Geoff Oltmans wrote:
>> Silly me... And here I was thinking I could just use my dell dimension 
>> celeron machine running win98 complete with 5.25" floppy drive AND (drum 
>> roll) a 10/100 NIC and ftp over to my ftp server. But your idea sounds more 
>> thorough. :)
> 
> Sure.
> But, a 2G USB flash drive will hold the contents of a mighty big stack of 
> floppies (bigger than the hard drive that he had 30 years ago)
> He might find that easier to deal with than ftp.
> 
> He might also need a little hand-holding on how to open the WP files with his 
> current word processor
> 
> 
> --
> Grumpy Ol' Fred             ci...@xenosoft.com

There's instructions for opening WordPerfect 5.x and 6.x docs in Microsoft Word 
2007 on Microsoft's support website, so I imagine that is probably not that big 
of a problem.