My old man has a bunch of .dox stuff saved. He has complicated large files saved that are not supported by any of the FOSS conversion tools. I’ve tried Libre office, Abi Word, and every command line tool and converter I can find. These are entire book sized files.
I have a W10 machine with Word. Is extracting the .exe and running it with wine feasible without making an epic mess or massive project of this?
Thanks for clarifying, and I can appreciate your overall concerns as I face the same dilemma with my aging relatives.
Just to confirm, have you opened these files in Word yourself (or witnessed them being opened), to verify they are in fact valid documents? if valid, are they meant to be in English?
It wouldn’t be the first time I’ve seen “other” files renamed with an incorrect file extension.
Yeah, they are all legitimate files and names. He’s even published a book on Amazon using them, so these are transferable somehow. I’m pretty sure he has just uses all default settings in Word.
I would have already set up the computer with W10 and sorted it out, but I had to do some cooking and pasted my limited physical abilities for the day. I should be able to script my way through converting the files in the power shell.
I figured no one was likely using current m$ Word in Linux, but ya never know what might be out there so why not ask. I own the Word that came with W10, so why should the state of kernel support be relevant to my use case. I mean last time I checked I am a citizen and not a feudal serf… As crazy as all these bots here want to make that seem.