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

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outdated information.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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