Re: [solved] wps file

[Christoph Nenning <christoph.nenning@gmx.de>]

> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I got a .wps file which was created with M$ Works. OOo, kword and
> > > abiword are all failing to open it. Does anybody know another
> > > tool to open it?
>
> What does Google say?
I get many asian sites and nothing helpful.



> Hi,
> .wps file is format of a chinese M$ Word-like software. It's well
> known in China. Basically it is the same with .doc file. You can
> change the suffix to .doc and have a try with M$ Word or OpenOffice.
> Good luck.
This does not help.



[... stuff about MS product to convert to .txt ]

> > Thanks for your reply Mirco. Yes I tried with OpenOffice and these M$
> > convert tools are just plugins for work, so I cannot use them :(
> > Any other suggestions?
>
> Its been a while since i looked into this, but can you just less the
> file and see what format its in? IOW, is it in some binary format or
> is it plaintext. if its plaintext, you could probably awk or sed your
> way into something useable. .02

Yes, I can get the content that way :)
I had to convert i to utf-8 first and it is not comfortable to read but at 
least I get the content.

Thanks for all your replies!

Christoph