Need Help to open files

pastorables · Postby **pastorables** » August 11th, 2008, 5:23 pm

Can anyone help me open several "Unix Exec Files" that I have transferred to my Mac? These were on an old PC (pictures, sermons, etc) and I'm not sure what program to designate to open them. I am not even sure how they were transferred as "Unix Exec Files", etc.

Thanks,
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pastorables · Postby **pastorables** » August 12th, 2008, 3:26 am

Where are all the GEEKS? :lol:

dolfan · Postby **dolfan** » August 12th, 2008, 3:38 am

They're in other time zones! At work or in bed. :lol:

MacUser · Postby **MacUser** » August 12th, 2008, 4:33 am

Those are probably .exe files and that format will not work on the mac. You will need to open them on a PC and convert to a simple txt or photo format (jpg, png, gif, etc)

Specifically they were probably some old MS office word or works that you saved them into etc. This is why it's always good to archive your old documents in a text based format and images in universal jpg etc.

You never know what the future applications will accept. So keep it basic.

pastorables · Postby **pastorables** » August 12th, 2008, 4:42 am

MacUser wrote:Those are probably .exe files and that format will not work on the mac. You will need to open them on a PC and convert to a simple txt or photo format (jpg, png, gif, etc)

Most are .wps files, but some are .sig and .let. You are probably correct that most came from an old MS Works program. Are there no web programs that can convert these?

Postby **Jeremy Gault** » August 12th, 2008, 7:19 am

I want to say that .wps is Micro$oft Works. (Never did understand why they had Works and Office, as they both did much the same..)

If my memory serves me correctly, Word cannot open .wps, but Works CAN save .doc format. To convert those, short of finding a conversion program (which may exist), you can open them in Works and save them out as .doc (Word) files. I don't think OpenOffice will read .wps, but if so, that's another option.

dolfan · Postby **dolfan** » August 12th, 2008, 8:57 am

Jeremy Gault wrote:I want to say that .wps is Micro$oft Works. (Never did understand why they had Works and Office, as they both did much the same..)

If my memory serves me correctly, Word cannot open .wps, but Works CAN save .doc format. To convert those, short of finding a conversion program (which may exist), you can open them in Works and save them out as .doc (Word) files. I don't think OpenOffice will read .wps, but if so, that's another option.

I may be wrong, but I think OpenOffice will read .wps, but not the other way around, and I know Word won't open an OpenOffice file (although the open source people say it will, I can't get it to).

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