Hi,
Thanks for the tip!  I can open them okay with OpenOffice but there's still
a lot of them (~40-50 files) and working out how they all fit together will
take a few hours.  My dad's coming to town in a couple of weeks and he
worked with Miles to try and get things into a web-presentable form so he
can help me if I can't work it out by myself.

Part of the problem is that Miles just got a bit too old for the whole thing
while they were still in the writing-up process.  His wife died and he moved
into a nursing home.  Still, my dad says he has all the hard-copy versions
of Miles's notes and graphs and so on, so we should be able to
reconstruct something.

Cheers,
Mike

On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 4:35 AM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Try copying (NOT renaming) the .WPD files to .doc files and you might trick
> microsoft word into opening them.
>
> Quoting michael pulsford <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> > Hi Scott,
> > Thanks for your interest!  I hadn't actually looked through the folder of
> > data before yesterday, and then I discovered it's all in Word Perfect
> format
> > and Excel files with uninformative names like MS001.WPD.
> >
> > So I might have to take an afternoon next week and sort through it all
> > before it's in a form I can send to anyone!  Miles wanted me to make a
> > website for him to publicise what he found, but I never got around to it.
> >  So sorting through it all will help me with that too.
> >
> > There is a 1-page html version he wrote, which I've put on the web here:
> > http://michael.pulsford.googlepages.com/miles'sparkinsontreatment
> >
> > And I'll aim to sort through the rest by the end of the week.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mike
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 2:16 AM, Scott Burnett
> > <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> >
> > > Mike,
> > >        I would be very interested in learning more of what Miles found
> > out.
> > >  I am 50 years old, diagnosed for 12 years, taking the following
> > medicines:
> > > carbidopa/levadopa 25/100 5X daily, Amantadine 100 Mg 2X/day, Requip 4
> Mg
> > > 4X/day, Comtan 200MG 4X/day.  That's a lot of pills, isn't it?  One
> time I
> > > figured it out and discovered I'd taken 65,000 pills (gulp! Literally!)
> > > Anyway, for that reason and others, I'm interested in what your
> > grandfather
> > > found out.  Would you be wiling to e-mail me the information he
> gathered
> > off
> > > list?  Here is my e-mail address:
> > >
> > > [log in to unmask]
> > >
> > > Looking forward to hearing from you.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Scott Burnett
> > > 7715 Heather Dr.
> > > Stockton, CA 95297
> > > 209-478-9328
> > > [log in to unmask]
> > >
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