[DM-MUG] Transferring OS 9 documents to OSX

[Roses Derise]

It doesn't seem to be that straightforward.

The documents are all Word files transferred from my old computer which was
running OS 9.1.

Here's what I get: 

Looking for an old article I had written about cults I did a spotlight
search with the word "cults" and I get a darkened icon with this name:

CULTS9~1

When I clicked on it I got this:


/Users/Roses/Documents/transferred\ data\ from\ old\ mac/beginning\ of\
civilization/Journey\ To\ the\ Center\ of\ Being/RESOURCE.FRK/CULTS9\~1 ;
exit;
roses-derises-macbook-pro-15:~ Roses$ /Users/Roses/Documents/transferred\
data\ from\ old\ mac/beginning\ of\ civilization/Journey\ To\ the\ Center\
of\ Being/RESOURCE.FRK/CULTS9\~1 ; exit;
-bash: /Users/Roses/Documents/transferred data from old mac/beginning of
civilization/Journey To the Center of Being/RESOURCE.FRK/CULTS9~1: cannot
execute binary file
logout

[Process completed]



All of the old files that I had not updated before Leopard are darkened and
up-openable like that.

???


On 12/29/07 10:04 AM, "Darcy Baston" <darcybaston at mac.com> wrote:

> If the resource fork is lost and you have a document with just a name that
> looks like "my document" and not "my document.doc", you can probably tell OS X
> what program to use to open it by typing a 3 character extension to the file
> name. Do you know what application was used to create those documents?
> 
> Darcy
> 
>  
> On Saturday, December 29, 2007, at 09:53AM, "Roses Derise"
> <homeonthefarm at iowatelecom.net> wrote:
>> 
>> How do I open up or otherwise access OS 9 documents from OSX?
>> 
>> 
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