On 04/06/2014 05:04 PM, Urmas wrote:
"CVAlkan":
When WordPerfect 5.x arrived, there was even the ability to display a
graphic preview (almost WYSIWYG) display of the printed output on a
normal
character screen - and this was available not only for DOS versions,
but on
a wide variety of platforms such as the then popular DEC and DG
terminals.
You are trying to defend a text processor which stores text in a
proprietary encoding in the obscured format. Comparing to this, MS
Word which used easy and open file format was a clear winner.
I am not sure of my time line, but I remember only proprietary formats
for early desktop applications and every software house had their own
formats. The problem occurred because no one expected the problems with
file type obsolescence. I doubt you can easily find a program that will
open most word processing or spreadsheets from the before 1990 and you
with some difficulty find one that will convert the old formats to a
current one.
--
Jay Lozier
jsloz...@gmail.com
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