> It�s probably true to say that
> Open Source software now has better handling of many of these ancient
> formats than any current product from the companies that originally
> created those formats.
I can't say I've tried it, but I stumbled across
PyODConverter which is a python program that makes a connection to libreoffice/openoffice and gets libreoffice to provide file type conversions.
Most of the source code seems to be in the __init__.py file here...
https://github.com/tyrannosaurus/pyodconverter/tree/master/PyODConverterI see
"MS Word 97" .doc files get a mention, but its not looking good for those old .wps Microsoft Works files.
cheers, Ian.
> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 16:13:39 +1200
> From: ldo@geek-central.gen.nz
> To: wlug@list.waikato.ac.nz
> Subject: [wlug] The Document Liberation, one year after
>
> The Document Liberation is an offshoot of The Document Foundation
> (responsible for LibreOffice) to manage all the handling of
> proprietary/legacy document formats in a form that can be reused by
> other projects, not just LibreOffice. I like the name of the framework
> library they created: �librevenge�--the aim, of course, being to
> strike a blow against all the companies locking up users� data in
> undocumented, proprietary formats which they then abandoned.
>
> For example, look at the support for Microsoft Works--anybody else even
> remember what that was? (Puts hand up.) It�s probably true to say that
> Open Source software now has better handling of many of these ancient
> formats than any current product from the companies that originally
> created those formats.
>
> <http://lwn.net/Articles/640198/>
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