Apologies for asking, but there's so much knowledge here! And I _am_ a Debian user. I'm about to be responsible for some work of my late father, written on an Osborne Vixen and saved to disk. 5.25" disks, of course. I have the disk drive, but is there any way to read the disk? His files will have been generated by WordStar, but I'm only concerned to extract text, so I don't need to emulate CP/M and run WS (although that _would_ be cool!). Patrick