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?

  • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz
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    2 months ago

    I have office 2007 on a winxp VM, I haven’t had to use it in a few years, but it is there as a back up

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        2 months ago

        Long past, but for old files especially, old .doc files it is great as a backup.

        It lives in a VM that never has access to the internet, it almost never gets started up.