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Re:Write plain text files by zouhair on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @12:32PM (#30530024)
It's a proprietary format, it's not gonna last.

Microsoft word can't even open files from old version of the same software.

None of these word document will be readable in 50 years from now, a text file though.

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Re:Write plain text files by catach on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @08:11PM (#30535835)
A modern MS Word document is pretty much zipped XML and mostly ISO standard-compliant.
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