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outdated information.
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I was looking for free "beginner" C/C++ books. I lost a lot of my
programming skills after each of 3 strokes. I want to start looking
into relearning C/C++ to do some things that I use to do, and I could
not figure out how to do some of those things in Python. I found many
of the free e-books [.epub, .mobi, and .pdf] books I wanted, and will
use other physical ones, for references.
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