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Quoting Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster <webmaster@krackedpress.com>:

Today I downloaded a 2006-ish C++ teacher's guide saved using the .sxw file format.

The format shows OpenOffice.org 1.0 text document, in Caja file manager [Ubuntu MATE].

I remember using OOo 1.x and the only issues were not MS Office 97-2003 formats were not supported. I loved it when I was able to read/write .doc files, since I was transitioning from Windows to Linux and MSO 2003 to a free open-source office suite.

Today was the first time in 7 or 8 years that I had to open a .sxw file. Thank goodness LO still have support with those file formats. MSO no longer supports their early file formats, so I had to make sure I re-saved all my early Word, WordPerfect, etc. documents to the more "modern" formats [Word 95 floppy era].

I never thought I would find/download .sxw files again.

To be honest, I lost a lot of documents because I could not find a working copy of the word processor that I created them with - i.e. before or early Windows software.


Hi Tim,

I can't remember the name of it right now, but there's a free software project that specifically aims to maintain the ability to read a great whack of legacy formats for cases such as you describe. Libre office and other sw use their work to import. Sounds boring as hell to me but the kind of thing that when you need it you need it bad.

Dave



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