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My mother needs to be able to read and modify files we dragged off of the Windows partition, but OpenOffice can't read them
(General Input/Output error).

Does anyone know of an application that will read "Works" files for Linux?

Copy them over to a Windows computer w/ MSOffice somewhere and save them out to the appropriate format?

God, Works. They still make that?! Barf.

Last time I used it was in 1998.

Yes, M$ still makes Works as a cheap alternative to Office.

I have a friend that has Works, so he could convert them to RTF documents, but "the powers that be" insist it should be done locally.
Any recommendations?

You could try running the MS works converter under WINE...