I have many wri files from the 90’s, and when I open them in libreOffice 7 many are truncated. If I open them in Linux Wine Wordpad, they are much longer if not entirely readable. A closed question says this is all fixed, but apparently not! I’d send the wri file but apparently this is not an allowed extension.
EDIT_ebot_20200823-09.25MEZ taken from answer, answer deleted.
Apparently the attachment of 2 files is also not working.
Edit 2020-08-23-09:51 CEST ajlittoz: fixed screenshots links
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wri is a format from M$-Write (very old).
See: WordPad - Wikipedia
Try to find someone who has a Windows operating system. There you can possibly convert your files.
Or:
I’d send the wri file but apparently this is not an allowed extension.
Upload a wri file:
Change the extension of your file from wri to odt and upload the file here.
Someone can then make the file a wri again. Thanks.
I kind of remember initial versions of Word (in the '90s) used to keep the full editing history of the document until you “Save As” which reset the history. I.e. deleted parts of your text remained in the file as “ghost” fragments. I suppose this allowed third party utilities to recover a former version of the document.
Could this be what happens when you open it in Wine Wordpad? Wordpad does not notice the “extra” data was in fact deleted as part of an edit session. Wordpad, according to the first screenshot, does not seem to correctly interpret the file format and displays some of the internal control information as “missing glyph” (the small white rectangles).
Until you actually provide the .wri (using the procedute explained by @Hrbrgr ), there’s nothing to add to the excellent guess by @ajlittoz.
@mikekaganski, it seems a bit strange to me that in the video “How many file and document formats can LibreOffice open?” it is mentioned that LibreOffice could open “Microsoft Write”, at 0:25 about in the middle.
But in my case in LibreOffice (7.0.0.3) such an extension is not present when opening. Did this exist in earlier LibreOffice versions?
I still keep a running installation of StarOffice V 5.2 (C)2000 (owned already by SUN, but still using the Win-only-code by StarDivision. At least I assume so, as it uses the original MDI) which claims to be able to import lots of variants (MS, Win, Mac, different versions) of .wri files, but I have next to nothing for testing. I would be interested to give it a try.
Concerning the upload: It’s sufficient to append the .wri to your current extended filename.
OK, how to upload a file as a comment? How abbout a google drive link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FBXT6qOBawnqZ0a7Wyzs8Y3HsB5gDugv/view?usp=sharing
Amusingly, some files have a signature image file in them, and some of them have the image inverted! Not sure how that happened!
MS did not make a fan of me when they stopped supporting wri files, then win 3.1 and 95 apps. Maybe you had to buy MSWord to open them? Linux Wine is pretty so much better, for the apps!
So is my problem repeatable for you?
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