Microsoft Write

An elderly (73 yrs old) friend has some word processor files (file suffix .wri) containing an encyclopaedia he has written of boating terminology and usage. He is not sure what word processor he used but thinks it was Windows 3.1 (!!). I suspect they are MS Write files but have been unable to find anything to convert .WRI to .DOC (the files may even have been corrupted!)
Does anyone know whether a download of MS Write and/or Windows 3.1 is available? I can set up a dedicated computer if necessary
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Bruce Fletcher
Stronsay, Orkney UK
<www.stronsay.co.uk/claremont>

 

Many thanks for the help. I've tried everything including the download of Write - I even managed to find and download Word 5.5 onto an old machine running Windows 95. I am now sure that a couple of files were corrupted when the old chap copied them (he isn't very computer literate), chkdsk tells me the original files on a 3.5 inch floppy are OK. I've managed to recover 90 percent of the data from the set of floppies but all the footnotes appear to have disappeared into a sea of hieroglyphics. Either that or he used an incredibly ancient word processing package.
Thanks again for the rapid response to my original posting
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Bruce Fletcher
Stronsay, Orkney UK

 

A quick followup to my post a few moments ago. In desperation I tried to open the files from within OpenOffice - and got the best results so far! A couple of files are still a bit dicey and the footnotes are still unrecoverable but all power to OpenOffice.
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Bruce Fletcher
Stronsay, Orkney