How a file created in MSDOS could be copied/pasted as MS WORD and mailed as attachment to my email ID?

Question

My Broker gives me print-outs of Daily Transaction Statements(DTS).When I asked him for a copy in Floppy or CD or as an attachment to my e-mail ID,he shows his inability for the reason that the DTS Data is in MSDOS and there is no such Menu Like - Copy, Paste, Mail to , as available in Windows etc. How can I get the Data in Digital Form like, in a Floppy / CD or as an Attachment to my e-mail address .Kindly suggest.

Answer 1

Assuming there is no special file formatting, I would suggest trying to open the file with Notepad and selecting the Terminal font to try to display the file. Using Notepad and this font the old standard and extended ASCII character set should display correctly.

If you don't usually use Notepad do the following.

Start>All Programs>Accessories>Notepad

Select the File menu.
Select the Open... sub-menu.
Locate the file in the dialog box.
Click Open.

If the text appears as gibberish:

Select the Format menu.
Select the Font sub-menu.
In the Font dialog box:
Select the Font: field and type Terminal or scroll down and select the Terminal font.
Select the Regular option in the Font style box.
Select the size you want in the Size: box.
Click OK.

The old dos file should now display correctly complete with any of the box characters used to define a screen form. From this text file you should be able to copy and paste to a window's program.

Answer 2

What is the file format? If the file is in wordstar or some similar formats, may be you can get some conversion utilities. MS DOS has copy and paste facility but whether the pasting takes place into Windows is to be checked out.

You can consider scanning the printout and converting it into .doc file using OCR software.

Answer 3

Simply copy the MSDOS file to your hard drive and give it a name. It will be in a .txt file (notepad). Open up your MS WORD and copy from the notepad file to MS WORD. The rest is history.

Answer 4

If the data is stored in a file then all your broker has to do is 'Attach file' to an email message from within his mail client.

Answer 5

You have word 2002 in works ? I dont have works, but if you do have word right click on the attatchment select open with then browse to word mark the word.exe and select open or execute or whatever is in your window. If that is kind of hard for you save the attatchment to your drive open word select open file browse to the attatchment and open it. If it all fails fetch the nearest man for help ;)