James Elliott wrote:
I note that in OOo 2.0 my new Writer documents have the extension .odt,
while my old Writer documents have the extension .sxw If I open a
*.sxw document and work on it with OOo.2.0 and then save it, I then have
both an .sxw and an .odt document, which can be confusing.
1. why does the new odt doc not simply replace the old .sxw one?
When the OASIS organization was looking for a universal standard
document format that could be used to replace *.doc, *.sxw, *.rtf, and
such, they decided to use the *.sxw format as a basis. However, some
bits of it were deemed too closely married to design details of the
OpenOffice.org program, so it was reworked into the new "OpenDocument"
format. Older versions of OpenOffice.org cannot handle the OpenDocument
format, but 1.5 and 2.0 can. (It's the main difference between 1.4 and
1.5.) So can other programs from other vendors (except for Microsoft,
who are deliberately boycotting it, just as they deliberately boycott
any other standard that might threaten their monopolistic tactics).
2. why was the file extension changed from *.sxw to *.odt
To avoid confusion. A program that can read or write *.sxw can not
necessarily read or write *.odt.
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John W. Kennedy
"But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."
-- Charles Williams. "Judgement at Chelmsford"
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