Thank you, Dick and Harry. I will make further attempts locally before
tossing them. I appreciate your responses.
Jan
Helpful Harry wrote:
> In article <126746k8jjcp3bd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Dick Margulis
> <margulisd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>
>>Jan,
>>
>>You weren't intruding.
>>
>>Don't toss them, though. Here's the issue. Every once in a while,
>>somebody digs out an old PM file and comes here asking if anyone can
>>open it for them. Generally, PM can't open a file more than one or two
>>versions back, so having old versions around is a good idea in
>>principle. The question is whether those old versions are installable on
>>a modern system, and I really don't know the answer to that.
>>
>>So maybe you should put out the call for someone who at least has an old
>>system hanging around--maybe Windows 3.1 for the early versions and
>>Windows 98 for the PM5 (those are guesses). Or are yours Mac versions?
>>
>>Dick Margulis, who is finally blogging, at
>>http://ampersandvirgule.blogspot.com/
>
>
> Also schools or community non-profit organisations may well be happy to
> receive them for free, rather than just throwing them away.
>
> Helpful Harry
> Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hard****ps
;o)
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