Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Your Name Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: more help with friend's mac, v10.4.11 Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 16:35:01 +1200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 36 Message-ID: <200420161635011879%YourName@YourISP.com> References: <5713b3a5$0$45015$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> <57146357$0$45010$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> <_8adnd7L_stpfovKnZ2dnUU7-IHNnZ2d@earthlink.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: jlM99PNZ0Y9H1QpNb3pFjA.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Thoth/1.8.4 (Carbon/OS X) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:35323 comp.sys.mac.system:90939 In article <_8adnd7L_stpfovKnZ2dnUU7-IHNnZ2d@earthlink.com>, Paul Magnussen wrote: > > I've found something that may be of interest: > > I still have a folder of letters done on a G3 in Word 4. The file-names > consist of the addressee plus the date in yyyy/mm/dd format, so that > they sort chronologically. They don't have .doc on the end, because of > course before OS X the Creator/Type headers were enough. > > I also have various other Word 4 docs without dates. > > Word 2011 will open a Word 4 doc without a date from the File menu; > however, for a file with a date it complains about invalid characters, > even though slashes are perfectly valid in the Mac file system. Slashes are sort of valid. They can be used but can cause issues (when using them in Terminal commands, for example, you have to "escape" the slash, otherwise Unix uses it as a sub-directory divider). > However, Word 2016 will apparently NOT open Word 4 docs in any > circumstances: it just tells you tersely to open them in an earlier > version of Word. > > Moral: if you need those old Word docs, better update them now, while > you still can. > > P.S. With what version did OS X stop checking the Creator/Type headers > when you double-clicked a doc that didn't have a suffix? > > Paul Magnussen Pages or even TextEdit might open those old Word documents, although you may lose some bits if they're fancy-a-fied documents.