Just for completness, here are the results of 
our off-line conversions and conversation 
concerning document conversion problem:

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On Thursday 04 October 2007, Peter Vandenabeele 
wrote:
> Richard,
> 
> Thanks ! 
> Attached is one (of the many) documents. 
> I actually believe the attached document is 
> not confidential (but I can't see).
> 
> Peter

It doesn't open, so far, on Ubuntu. 

Well, as a Lotus WordPro Document, 
it opens, but the document is empty. 

Properties say it is a StarWriter document 
containing a Microsoft Word document. 
So far it won't give it up. I'll keep trying 
tomorrow and let you know as 
soon as something useful happens. :)


Added later:
I got some things done and tried again.
Here are the results of your top 100 list of 
hits: 

You can read the names but not the images. 
Weird. 

You know there was a release of OOo1.x.x 
something that butchered files so they would 
not re-open after saving and closing in 
anything.  But surely you would have noticed 
something as drastic as that. 

Opening them up in a text editor yields the best 
results for getting the text.  If there are 
images, they will be tough to get. 

Maybe you'll find something new. 

There are/were some win programs that were good 
at reading strange or mangled formats, but I 
can't remember it.  Maybe it will come to me 
later. 

Goodnight, again. 
Richard.

Asunto: Re: The top100.sdw document
Fecha: Friday 05 October 2007
De: "Peter Vandenabeele" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Para: "Richard/g" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Richard,

Thanks for all your work.

Obviously _this_ document is not very critical. 
I actually also have it
in flat text form.

What interests me is understanding the grander 
picture.

On 10/5/07, Richard/g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
...
> You know there was a release of OOo1.x.x
> something that butchered files so they would
> not re-open [in anything] after saving and
> closing.  But surely you would have noticed 
> something as drastic as that.  

Well ... actually I was not aware ... I just 
used it and it worked ... Strange I didn't see 
that problem until now, years later ... when 
trying to reopen some of my old documents.

Funny about that is, that it both affect 
documents from the 2002 area and from 2005 ...

> Opening them up in a text editor yields the 
best
> results for getting the text.  If there are
> images, they will be tough to get.
>
> Maybe you'll find something new.

I think the best is if you could write 
a "global" reply on the list of what you 
discovered as technical problems.

Thanks anyway.

Peter
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saludos,
Richard.

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