Re: What to do with an ODF file?

On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 12:11:46 UTC, Peter Brown
<losepeteSPAM-ME-NOT@xxxxxxxxxxxx> opined:
Hi Stan

Stan Goodman wrote:
I recently made the mistake of telling a corresondent that I have OpenOffice
installed on my system. He has responded by sending me a file with the
extension ODF, which I have learned means Open Document Format. I have tried
to view it in OO v1.4, which displays it as an empty page.

A Google search on <"open document format" os/2> has not taught me what to
do with this bloated file (which seems to consist largely of Ws). Is there
something I can do to read it?

I would be willing to bet that there is nothing in this file that could not
be equally well conveyed in plain text. Some day, if I live long enough, I
hope to learn what it is that causes otherwise sentient primates to avoid
plain text like the plague.

The good news is that OO115 does claim to be able to open that format so
I would suggest an update.

Many thanks for this information. Now I at least know what can read this
formerly unheard of format.

It was my understanding that OO115 was a vailable only as a Windows file
that had to be run under Odin; is that right? I have not had the best of
experiences with Norse deities, which is why I'm using v1.1.4.

Now, as I google about, I see some confused and contradictory mentions of a
version of v1.1.5 ported, or expected to be ported, to OS/2, and even about
the same hopes for v2. I also see that one will need to pay 50 bucks for the
privilege of support for the latter "free" application. Have I got that
straight?

If it is true, I am turned off. I have no quarrel with the presumed economic
reasons for requiring this fee, and I hope nobody will contest my reluctance
to pay it.

Now that you tell me that v1.1.5 and v2 can handle this new format, I'll
install it or v2 on the Windows partition of my T21.
--
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel


How to convince others that you are tolerant and nonviolent: throw grenades
and firebombs, blow up schoolbusses and pizzerias, burn buildings,
decapitate those you can't convince, and in general, exhibit your
narrow-minded bloodthirstiness for all to see -- and tell them you're doing
it for God.

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