(Or, if you have it, a modern version of WordPerfect.) Double-click on that in Windows (Linux, whatever) and select LibreOffice (swriter.exe on Windows) to open it. You can also use DW3 to export the file as RFT then use option 2 (option 3 might work too, because DW can export to FFT) in any case, do not define a CRS file (whatever that is). To convert a DW3 file, use option C, as above. This program can use a DisplayWrite file, but will also do RFT ( not RTF) and FFT (revisable-form-text and final-form-text), both of which DisplayWrite can output. We enter the existing file name and the one to convert to. Put your DisplayWrite file in the same folder as the convert.exe program, run DOSBox and mount that folder as a drive in DOSBox. Then, copy the file into a DOSBox or DOSBox-X installation - DOSBox is easy to install, I leave to to you. The trick is to go via WordPerfect 5.1 format, which can be read in by LibreOffice, because of the stability of the WordPerfect file format.įirst, download this convert.exe utility that used to come with WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS: I have seen the odd request on the web about how to read old DisplayWrite files, so I thought I would document it here. TXT, but they are not what we think of as text files (I used to use DW3 as the extension).

The default file format on DisplayWrite is a binary format.

DisplayWrite 3, for example, does not even have italics - it really is like a typewriter on a computer. They were quite good in many ways, but never made it into the GUI era. DisplayWrite was a family of word processors from IBM in the 1980s.

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