retrieving text from floppy in Windows XP

I put patterns on a floppy using Works on my old Windows
95 program. Now I want to retrieve these patterns in XP
and can't get them - at least not in the form I put them
in. Tried to open in notepad, wordperfect, and others but
it looks like I have to start typing all over again. Is
there a way I can open these in the original form, not
all garbled?

I had a similar problem once. Not quite the cure, but solved my problem.
If you can cut and paste from floppy (notepad or word) and then create the
new doc. or txt. to put it into. I dont know why it happened for myself as
well, but the cure did work for me. Once saved in XP, it never was a
problem again. All proggys recognized the standard text.

best of luck,
SL
"breister" <beeuw@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I put patterns on a floppy using Works on my old Windows
> 95 program. Now I want to retrieve these patterns in XP
> and can't get them - at least not in the form I put them
> in. Tried to open in notepad, wordperfect, and others but
> it looks like I have to start typing all over again. Is
> there a way I can open these in the original form, not
> all garbled?

"breister" <beeuw@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:05dc01c35adf$0c920990$a401280a@phx.gbl...

> I put patterns on a floppy using Works on my old Windows
> 95 program. Now I want to retrieve these patterns in XP
> and can't get them - at least not in the form I put them
> in. Tried to open in notepad, wordperfect, and others but
> it looks like I have to start typing all over again. Is
> there a way I can open these in the original form, not
> all garbled?

You need to either have works on your new computer, or have some program
that can open works files properly, or you can open them on your old
computer in works and save them in a format you can open on your new
computer.

It's really a problem with having files in the proprietary works format;
it's not a windows 95/xp problem.