I have a rental property, and I can get a CD with forms on it for the 
rental agreement on it.  They say the thing is only compatible with 
Windows 95 through 2000.

As long as the files are word (that is, with the *.doc suffix), I should 
be able to download the files, right?  Or am I missing something?

H.

In article <rowbotth-4BFE38.11013313052006@news.telus.net>,
 Rowbotth <rowbotth@telusplanet.net> wrote:

> I have a rental property, and I can get a CD with forms on it for the 
> rental agreement on it.  They say the thing is only compatible with 
> Windows 95 through 2000.
> 
> As long as the files are word (that is, with the *.doc suffix), I should 
> be able to download the files, right?  Or am I missing something?

Yes, although depending on the OS version you have you might need an 
add-on to handle the file system. If you're using a pre-X version of Mac 
OS, head for VersionTracker and search for Joliet.

-- 
"Congurutulation!!!" - The subject line on some spam I received recently.
I have no idea what it means, but it's such a cool "word" (by which I mean
pronouncable sequence of letters) regardless.

Rowbotth <rowbotth@telusplanet.net> wrote:

> I have a rental property, and I can get a CD with forms on it for the
> rental agreement on it.  They say the thing is only compatible with 
> Windows 95 through 2000.
> 
> As long as the files are word (that is, with the *.doc suffix), I should
> be able to download the files, right?  Or am I missing something?

Sounds right. 
Unless they have put some "auto-run" software on it, in which case it
may still be possible to scavenge for the actual files in there. 
-- 
/Jon
For mail address, run the following in Terminal: 
echo 36199371860304980107073482417748002696458P|dc
Skype: storhaugen

In article <uce-8C5401.14154013052006@comcast.dca.giganews.com>,
 Gregory Weston <uce@splook.com> wrote:

> In article <rowbotth-4BFE38.11013313052006@news.telus.net>,
>  Rowbotth <rowbotth@telusplanet.net> wrote:
> 
> > I have a rental property, and I can get a CD with forms on it for the 
> > rental agreement on it.  They say the thing is only compatible with 
> > Windows 95 through 2000.
> > 
> > As long as the files are word (that is, with the *.doc suffix), I should 
> > be able to download the files, right?  Or am I missing something?
> 
> Yes, although depending on the OS version you have you might need an 
> add-on to handle the file system. If you're using a pre-X version of Mac 
> OS, head for VersionTracker and search for Joliet.

One word of warning. Direct-CD was very popular during this time but it 
used a 'flavor' of UDF 1.5 that required the Direct-CD program to access 
which is no longer supported so these disks have problems in the newer OSes 
(both Mac and Windows).

In article <1hfang3.1owiyx6a6lob5N%see_signature@mac.com.invalid>,
 see_signature@mac.com.invalid (Jon) wrote:

> Rowbotth <rowbotth@telusplanet.net> wrote:
> 
> > I have a rental property, and I can get a CD with forms on it for the
> > rental agreement on it.  They say the thing is only compatible with 
> > Windows 95 through 2000.
> > 
> > As long as the files are word (that is, with the *.doc suffix), I should
> > be able to download the files, right?  Or am I missing something?
> 
> Sounds right. 
> Unless they have put some "auto-run" software on it, in which case it
> may still be possible to scavenge for the actual files in there.

That won't matter.   The Windows auto-run will only run on Windows.   
The CD will still be viewable/searchable on anything else that can read 
CDs.

Mike

Mike <me@here.net> writes:
>
> That won't matter.   The Windows auto-run will only run on Windows.   
> The CD will still be viewable/searchable on anything else that can read 
> CDs.

Yes, but the documents may be buried underneath an ugly directory tree.
Or encoded into a proprietary container format that the auto-run Windows
software extracts them from.  Or it might not be in MS Office format,
but in a proprietary format that the disc's software can read.

It might work fine on a Mac, or it might not.  You'd have to actually
try it out to be certain.

-- David

In article <m28xp5k417.fsf@qqqq.invalid>, shamino@techie.com (David C.) 
wrote:

> > The CD will still be viewable/searchable on anything else that can read 
> > CDs.

I agree, because since Tiger OS X can even read broken "standards" like 
ISO 9660 Level 4 (which Windows 98 can not).

> Yes, but the documents may be buried underneath an ugly directory tree.
> Or encoded into a proprietary container format that the auto-run Windows
> software extracts them from.  Or it might not be in MS Office format,
> but in a proprietary format that the disc's software can read.

Actually, MS Office is as proprietary as it gets.

> It might work fine on a Mac, or it might not.  You'd have to actually
> try it out to be certain.

Exactly.

-- 
  Tobias Weber

Tobias Weber wrote:
> In article <m28xp5k417.fsf@qqqq.invalid>, shamino@techie.com (David C.)
> wrote:
>
> > > The CD will still be viewable/searchable on anything else that can read
> > > CDs.
>
> I agree, because since Tiger OS X can even read broken "standards" like
> ISO 9660 Level 4 (which Windows 98 can not).
>
> > Yes, but the documents may be buried underneath an ugly directory tree.
> > Or encoded into a proprietary container format that the auto-run Windows
> > software extracts them from.  Or it might not be in MS Office format,
> > but in a proprietary format that the disc's software can read.
>
> Actually, MS Office is as proprietary as it gets.

Actually we are talking about soem old versions of the format. Even
OpenOffice can look in a MSOffice format of 6 years ago.