Hi,
First, thanks to everyone for your great advice and
insight about installing OO, and, pointing out the realities
with respect to SO. The advice worked perfectly, and the
other comments really make a lot of sense.
Now, I have a somewhat strange question, but first, the
premise: "I started using desktop computers in the mid
eighties, when I saw two job ads asking that the applicant
have a facility with MS Extended BASIC. I realized that my
education and training with Mainframes (COBOL, BAL, and JCL)
was not sufficient to then get a job as an entry-level
programmer (Programmer Trainee). The desktop computer with
which I started was a Z80 run computer, initially ROM
loaded, etc.
This computer, though great in every way, was sorely
limited. I discovered I needed a computer which had more
RAM availability, from the start, and a diskdrive, plus
could offer numerous computer programming languages. After
doing a lot of comparing, I chose the Commodore Amiga
Personal Computer (the A1000 -- which, at the time I bought
it, was more stable than the A2000, and cheaper than it,
could transmit in in color to a TV, so I would not need a
special monitor; and, was not a potential fire hazard as the
A500 was at that time). Of the programs I bought for it, I
chose WordPerfect For The Amiga because it would allow me to
have accessibility with all versions of WordPerfect, SFA the
created files were concerned; especially because the floppy
diskdrives of the Amiga could be used as MS/IBM drives too,
thus allowing me to work with files created on an MS/IBM
computer system.
WordPerfect For The Amiga can accept any normal file
created by any wordprocessing program, from any system. It
will tell me that the file is not in WordPerfect format, and
then ask if I wish to retrieve it anyway? The result will
be a lot of garbage, which would be all the embedded things
placed with the file by the other program, and all the text.
As long as the text in not encripted in any way (as
Multimate always did), I would still have whatever was
written and saved with that program. The value of this is
to be able to work with information which is not being
accepted by other wordprocessing programs. Once this text
is isolated in WordPerfect, it can be saved as a text file
which can then be retrieved by any other wordprocessing
program; and, as we all know, MS Word has trouble accepting
files created by other versions of MS Word, itself."
The question: "Can Open Office's Write do a similar
thing, on the MS Win computer, as what WordPerfect For The
Amiga can do, on the Amiga Computer? I am well aware we
also cannot read floppy disks which are not IBM formatted;
but, we can read CDs and DVDs, and files received via
telecomputing (EDI, Internet, E-Mail, messaging, etc.) which
are created by other computers and other wordprocessing
programs or other versions of wordprocessing programs.
Anyone have an idea?"
Thanks for all of your kind attention.
Regards,
Julian.
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