Converting older documents to Word or Pages

     I have a number of documents from my high school, college, and graduate school days, all of which are saved in various formats. Some are compatible with Pages and Word, others require a bitttf work to get open and saved, so I can work with them using current software. Presently, two formats that have been giving me the most trouble are leftovers from Appleworks 5 and another word-processing app'm not sure of, possible WordPerfect. When I try to open the Appleworks 5 documents, I get a message telling me Pages is not compatible with this version of Appleworks. I do have Appleworks on my computer, but because I have upgraded to Lion, it no longer works. Any ideas there?
The other format giving me trouble simple shows up in the Finder as a Unix Executable File. I have no idea what that means, nor what to do with it. Can any of you help me out? Thank you!

The AppleWorks documents you will have to reopen in AppleWorks 6 and convert to AppleWorks 6 docs.
AbiWord (free) will open WordPerfect documents and you can resave them to .doc files to open in Pages.
Keep in mind you are heading into another possible deadend with Pages. Nothing else reads .pages files.
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