Every home PC of the ’90s shipped with Works; nothing ships that reads it. .wps to Word or PDF.
Recent versions of Word dropped the Works import filter. The libwps filter here reads Works word-processor files from the DOS versions through Works 9 (the last one, 2009) — including the odd ones written by Works for Mac.
Text, tables and basic formatting come through well; elaborate layouts come through approximately. The engines are the Document Liberation Project filters — two decades of reverse-engineering work, the same ones inside LibreOffice — and they’re the best free readers these formats have. For a file that opens nowhere else, approximate beats gone.
It’s written to a private temporary folder for the few seconds the conversion engine needs, then deleted — nothing is retained, logged or shared. No account, no email, no “files kept for 24 hours” fine print. These are often someone’s letters, family records or old business files; we treat them accordingly.