I could not reproduce the first part of your problem.
When I did a "Save as type" --  "Text Document" or
"Text Document - MS-DOS Format" (in Wordpad-Win95b)
I got pure text files (ascii) stripped of the embedded graphics
and fonts that were in the file I was "playing with".
(You need to START with a NON-ascii file to see what happens
when you change it (properly) to a ascii file.
I think you need to resolve that problem before you
move on to making the resulting files into links on a WEB page.
I recently had a printer driver setting problem that sounds very
much like what you are "looking at", or seeing.
My plain text ("default" font) screen displays were converted by the
printer driver FROM bitmap or graphic fonts, INTO the closest
available installed text font.  It was not even close, and looked
a lot like Greek or Russian. (I would not actually recognize either...
Lots of pitch forks and candle holders and "odd" stuff...)
                   Rick Glazier

----- Original Message -----
From: Alex Polenov <[log in to unmask]>
> I have a number of files (about 70) in WordPad format (.wri) and I want
> to make web page from those files. Think I need convert them to txt
> format and make files index.htm with links to each file. But after saving
> as txt files from WordPad (SaveAs -> text file) I've lost data and have
> ??? instead russian text.
> So the question is - what's fasterst way to make the web page with links
> to my wri files? Maybe just put wri to web? But text files will be  faster
> to load than wri.

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