Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Thank goodness for opening legacy formats

[anne-ology]

   another good reason to use LO !!!



From: V Stuart Foote <vstuart.fo...@utsa.edu>
Date: Tue, May 31, 2016 at 9:14 PM
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Thank goodness for opening legacy formats
To: users@global.libreoffice.org


Well sure. But remember, even if some of the "legacy" deprecated document
formats are eventually removed The Document Foundation sponsors an archive
of prior LibreOffice project release builds.

http://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/

So you are covered either way :-)

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Thank goodness for opening legacy formats

[Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster]

On 06/01/2016 02:59 AM, Piet van Oostrum wrote:

V Stuart Foote wrote:

  > Well sure. But remember, even if some of the "legacy" deprecated document
  > formats are eventually removed The Document Foundation sponsors an archive
  > of prior LibreOffice project release builds.
  >
  > http://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/
  >
  > So you are covered either way :-)

Until your current O.S. no longer supports these old releases, or your current 
hardware no longer supports the relevant O.S. releases, or the relevant older 
hardware is no longer available :)



Yes, "until your current OS. . . ." and old hardware available are two 
real qualifiers.  I no longer have a working floppy drive [internal or 
external ones] to read any files on either two standard sizes of floppies.


Whenever I find a legacy format, I do my best to save/export the file to 
a more usable format.


examples;

1] I saved the two .sxw files, that I downloaded yesterday, to the .odt 
format.


2]  As long as MS Office still reads/writes .doc [and other 97-2003 
formats] I will be using it to send word processing documents to MS 
Office users - not .docx.  For those users, they have several different 
versions of MS Office from 2007 to the latest version[s]. So using 
.docx, currently, may not be the most compatible for this example.


After OpenOffice.org went to 3.x, I made sure all of my .sxw files were 
converted to the .odt format.


I was surprised that some web sites still had .sxw files [plus some had 
pdf versions] as their only editable file format of their "educational" 
work.  The books I downloaded were in .sxw so I really think the 
creator[s] really loved OOo.  Also it was also a warning of potentially 
outdated information.


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[libreoffice-users] Re: Thank goodness for opening legacy formats

[Piet van Oostrum]

V Stuart Foote wrote:

 > Well sure. But remember, even if some of the "legacy" deprecated document
 > formats are eventually removed The Document Foundation sponsors an archive
 > of prior LibreOffice project release builds.
 > 
 > http://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/
 > 
 > So you are covered either way :-)

Until your current O.S. no longer supports these old releases, or your current 
hardware no longer supports the relevant O.S. releases, or the relevant older 
hardware is no longer available :)

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Thank goodness for opening legacy formats

[Tim Lloyd]

Thanks Stuart. I normally keep my old RPM files, this clears up a lot of 
disk space :)



On 01/06/16 12:14, V Stuart Foote wrote:

Well sure. But remember, even if some of the "legacy" deprecated document
formats are eventually removed The Document Foundation sponsors an archive
of prior LibreOffice project release builds.

http://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/

So you are covered either way :-)




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[libreoffice-users] Re: Thank goodness for opening legacy formats

[V Stuart Foote]

Well sure. But remember, even if some of the "legacy" deprecated document
formats are eventually removed The Document Foundation sponsors an archive
of prior LibreOffice project release builds.

http://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/

So you are covered either way :-)




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