Re: [SLUG] OT: openoffice.org and file converting.

From: Craig Zeigler (craig@ctrust.com)
Date: Wed May 03 2006 - 09:34:09 EDT


William Coulter wrote:
> This is off topic because it is a Mac question with windows.
>
> My question is my friend has an old Mac. I believe that he made all his documents in ether apple
> works or clairs(sp) works. Is there a version of openoffice that would run in os9.2? What I was
> thinking of doing was to convert his files from appleworks or clairsworks to openoffice. Save
> them to cd or usb and then transfer them to an XP box with openoffice. This is the only idea that
> I have come up with to fix this. He eventually will buy ms office, but I am trying to convince
> him otherwise. I think that if can convince him how flexable and usefull open source has been to
> him, he will give a good run through.
>
> william
>
>
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Has RTF ever occurred to you? That has been around for a very long time
and IIRC (its been a long time since I was damned to use a mac) apple
works and clairs both supported it.

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