Re: [tdf-discuss] ignore m$ legacy?

On 07/25/2011 06:40 PM, Sigrid Carrera wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:54:14 -0400
> Steven Shelton<steven@sheltonlegal.net>  wrote:
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> > On 7/22/2011 7:23 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
> > > Even worse, given that MSO has the greatest market share it means that
> > most legacy documents use the MSO formats. I knew many people that
> > refused to switch from Word Perfect when I told them that OOo would NOT
> > read their document archives that they spent years creating.
> >
> > As an aside, since when does OOo not open WordPerfect files? I used it
> > to open one just this morning.
> as far as I remember, OOo doesn't open WordPerfect files. It was go-ooo that had the filter to open 
> those files. And LibreOffice inherited this capability from go-ooo.
>
> I don't know, but it might have changed now for OOo too, so that it can WordPerfect files.
>
> Sigrid
I think that they added the WordPerfect filter some years back, do not 
remember exactly when, but, it was a really big deal for many 
WordPerfect users. I have been using the product from the StarOffice 
days on OS/2. When I use past tense "I knew", I am not referring to a 
current situation. At the time, many people were asking me about 
WordPerfect support. The filter was developed as a stand-alone thing 
that was integrated (or something like that). I followed it closely at 
the time, but after it was integrated, it ceased to be an issue for me 
to follow and the details are lost unless I go back and do some digging. 
It is simply an example of people that did not switch and stayed with 
"pay" products because their format was not supported.

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Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
Info:  http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php


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