I wonder to what extent the actual file format is common to those products, though.
My impression from way back was that at most times in the Windows age, MSWord .doc files were essentially memory dumps that if you were lucky could be rescued via RTF (see eg https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2013/11/compatibility-is-hard-chartestdoc-is.html and https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2008/04/does-anybody-here-remember-artie-eff.html - sorry, G-tracked only), compatibility between versions was far from guaranteed AFAICR
Peter N. M. Hansteen
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2024-11-12 22:40:56 UTC
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