Re: [libreoffice-users] .ORD files

Hi :)
Even if he has left it might still be good to get this links onto the thread just in case other 
people look it up in the future
http://www.solvusoft.com/en/file-extensions/file-extension-ord/

Again it's a 3rd party site and 3rd party tool and i have no idea about ow good either are.  
Regards from 
Tom :)  




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 From: Tim Lloyd <tim.lloyd@gmx.com>
To: Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> 
Cc: "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org> 
Sent: Thursday, 29 August 2013, 22:11
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] .ORD files
 

Thanks for following up Tom.

The guy who posted this question over on LQ seems to have left the 
building so he either has a solution or he has given up.

Anyway, we will know for next time!

Cheers

On 08/30/2013 03:38 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> I did a google search about it and found a few proprietary tools that might work or might be 
> dodgy.  I hate all that freeware/shareware or low cost dodgy looking proprietary looking stuff.  
> There is just no way of knowing what it's doing and there is a reputation that they do nasty 
> stuff quite often.  If you are using the tools on Wine in Gnu&Linux then you are probably a lot 
> safer than using the same tools in Windows ...
>
> On the other hand some of the best-ever tools and games and things have been released that way so 
> it's really difficult to tell if they are just falling foul of the same type of FUD that 
> OpenSource gets tarred with.
>
> I used to have an amazing Firewall that also acted as a package manager for updating drivers and 
> everything in Windows Xp.  Their company got bought-out and then the product just vanished and i 
> lost my installer.  Another was an awesome anti-spyware thing that was maintained by just 1 
> person but still managed to stay ahead of companies such as Norton/Symantec almost all the time.
>
> There seems to be some confusion whether .ord are system config files or something like that or 
> CAD files!  Quite a difference!  The proprietary tools seemed to deal with .ords that were system 
> files.
>
> I'm on a different machine today and haven't googled on here yet and prolly wont have time to 
> sory.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>    From: Tim Lloyd <tim.lloyd@gmx.com>
> To: "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, 27 August 2013, 22:35
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] .ORD files
>   
>
> Hi, I am going to throw this in for comment. Not expecting much
> response. I saw a mention on linuxquestions relating to reading a .ord file:
>
>       ORD is a file format used by OMAX software to store routed tool path
>       information. This is the information that the controller needs in
>       order to machine a part.
>
> The guy wants to know whether there is an application which can open
> this type of file. I guess the question is, has anyone ever heard of
> this file type before?
>
> Cheers
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