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> LibreOffice opens it right up. It's support for old document formats is really excellent. Yes, the OP also mentions that LibreOffice opens it. ...but they a

> LibreOffice opens it right up. It's support for old document formats is really excellent. Yes, the OP also mentions that LibreOffice opens it. ...but they also point out with LibreOffice that "Although there's something weird about the margins and there are other formatting problems." - which is also apparent in your screenshot? Certainly that level support for such an old proprietary format is pretty good, but I'm not sure I'd class it as "really excellent" with those issues.

jgrahamc 3y ago
Yes, LibreOffice opened it right up with the wrong font sizes, headers and footers messed up, incorrect gutter and margins, and a bunch of other problems. But they were all fixable.
msephton 3y ago
I should have been clearer: what I meant was that its support for very many different old document formats is excellent. Atari ST, Amiga, Macintosh, and so on. The OP and you are quite right that it won't open the documents with exactly the right formatting, but it's good enough in a pinch so you don't have to learn how to use 40 year old computers. It's a good tool to have. 7zip has similar support for a wide range of compressed file formats, exes, data files, cabinets, and so on. Another good tool to save time and keep you on your modern operating system.
- opello 3y ago
  > 7zip has similar support for a wide range of compressed file formats, exes, data files, cabinets, and so on. 7zfm.exe (7-Zip File Manager) anyway, which I agree is very useful. I've wanted it in Linux multiple times to avoid creating loopback devices but seem to always find it's Windows only.
  - msephton 3y ago
    I was referring to 7z on the command line.
    - opello 3y ago
      Ah nice, I didn't realize it worked with the wider types of archives. I'm pretty sure I dug into the source in the past when trying to get it to handle an ISO in Linux and found that it was only supported on Windows. But that might have just been the GUI and not the command line tool. Thanks!

jgrahamc 3y ago

Yes, LibreOffice opened it right up with the wrong font sizes, headers and footers messed up, incorrect gutter and margins, and a bunch of other problems. But they were all fixable.

msephton 3y ago

I should have been clearer: what I meant was that its support for very many different old document formats is excellent. Atari ST, Amiga, Macintosh, and so on. The OP and you are quite right that it won't open the documents with exactly the right formatting, but it's good enough in a pinch so you don't have to learn how to use 40 year old computers. It's a good tool to have. 7zip has similar support for a wide range of compressed file formats, exes, data files, cabinets, and so on. Another good tool to save time and keep you on your modern operating system.

opello 3y ago
> 7zip has similar support for a wide range of compressed file formats, exes, data files, cabinets, and so on. 7zfm.exe (7-Zip File Manager) anyway, which I agree is very useful. I've wanted it in Linux multiple times to avoid creating loopback devices but seem to always find it's Windows only.
- msephton 3y ago
  I was referring to 7z on the command line.
  - opello 3y ago
    Ah nice, I didn't realize it worked with the wider types of archives. I'm pretty sure I dug into the source in the past when trying to get it to handle an ISO in Linux and found that it was only supported on Windows. But that might have just been the GUI and not the command line tool. Thanks!