resisting .tmp file

[MarieO]

Hi,

Is there anymone who can help me in opening
a .tmp file which resists to any attempt of
opening ?

Marie O.

[neuron2]

What are the contents of the file? What have you tried already and what do you means by "resists"?

[ultimatebilly]

You probably can't remove it because it is used by some application.
Just restart your computer, press F8, enter safe-mode, and remove everything you want to...

[neuron2]

He said he wants to open it, not remove it.

[MarieO]

Thank you for your replies. The file contains only text. I had once WordPerfect, but came to Word. But even with both WordPerfect or Word, I still can not open it. I want to open it. I do not want to erase it. The name of the file is : "WP}00004". Even if I try to rename "WP}00004" in : "WP}00004.txt" or "WP}00004.doc", nothing happens. Word stops immediately. Marie

[ultimatebilly]

Oh, sorry!
Did you try notepad?
Might give you only garbage, but maybe also something readable...

[neuron2]

Does word give an error message? Isn't there a WordPerfect import filter for Word that you can install? Otherwise, you'll have to temporarily re-install WordPerfect to open the file, and then export the contents as raw ASCII.

[zilog jones]

OpenOffice (www.openoffice.org) might have better luck trying to read it, but you'll have to download/install that too (it's about 64MB for the Windows version).

[Inventive Software]

Notepad ain't bad, if it's not in the evil MS-DOS Text with Line Breaks Format. Try WordPad, as it will probably have more luck with it.

Saying that, try opening the file from directly within Wordpad or something. Just double-clicking it won't have an effect.

[Arachnotron]

The Microsoft Office Converter Pack (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/212265/) contains the converters needed to import Wordperfect 5 and 6 files. It can be downloaded for free. Note that this converter pack can be installed on all office versions from 97 onwards.

[MarieO]

Thank you so very much for your help, thats very nice of you. I'll try and come back to you.

[MarieO]

Notepad has opened the file, but only symbols came out of it, no coherent text. The Microsoft Office Converter Pack gave no results neither. Is there another way, may be, to open this file ? :confused: Thank you, again, for your kind support.

[Arachnotron]

The norton utilities used to contain a filefix utility that could repair various older word processing files. It was there in versions 7 and 8, don't know about the later versions of NU (now symantec). Maybe you know someone that still has a copy?

There is also a repair util from corel for corrupted wp files here (ftp://ftp.corel.com/pub/WordPerfect/wpwin/10/wplook.exe). There is an older version of this tool here. (http://www.corel.com/6763/downloads/WordPerfect/wpwin/8/wp8rest.exe)

[MarieO]

Thank you for your help, I will see if it works.

[video_magic]

You may want to try Notepad plus plus, probably worth a try if you haven't had success elsewhere.
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/

[MarieO]

Thank you very much for your help. It's not my lucky day, nothing seems to work really.

[cypher_soundz]

try grabbing hex workshop and opening the file, read the first few lines to see if there is any text saying "Microsoft Word 9.0" or something like the name of a text software package you may of used, (they may of used?)
Where did you find this .tmp file?
Regards
cyph