I had zero problem with either on a Mac OS X. The text file opened right up in TextEdit and the Word Docs in NeoOffice (Open Office clone written for Macs) Gary Smith.............The Lovely Janet.....gars@speakeasy.org 5186 CR-5..............Heirloom Veggies.....gars@speakeasy.net Ashland, AL 36251, U.S.A....& Herbs....gars@thelovelyjanet.com ----- Original Message ---- > From: wolf <ch@wolfmusic.eu> > To: chile-heads@globalgarden.com > Sent: Fri, August 6, 2010 4:13:32 PM > Subject: [CH] The recipes, here they are . . . > > . . . on popular request. > > The first batch is from 1993 - 1995, plain text files. > Whenever I open one, > UltraEdit asks me if I want to convert it to DOS > format, so it might be an > unusual kind of encoding. I remember I downloaded it > as a Unix style zip file > and we converted it for use in the Windows world. > > The 2nd part is a carefully edited word doc of 175 > pages, October 1996.