[Opensource] building an information fortress

[victor rajewski]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Phillip Pike <pikep at bmg.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> Roland- are you saying that if you have an old Word document that will no
> longer open, that if I change the extension to ODT and open it in Open
> Office it will read Ok?

Not likely. Openoffice can open many Word documents. But it needs to
know it's a word document to apply the correct filter. Changing the
extension will, if anything, just confuse the program into thinking it
is an OpenDocument file, and probably fail (since it is not). Keep the
extension as .doc and try it anyway.

(Then again some programs are smarter and look beyond just the
extension when deciding what format a file is in. The Gnome desktop
environment under linux does this. And Macs never really had
extensions until they were forced into a degree of compatibility with
Windows)

vik