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?

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    Okay. First off, I downvoted you for obvious reasons.

    Second, if you’re not sure how to extract the header of a file, just Google that. You may be ill prepared and asking for help here.

    • j4k3@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      24 days ago

      You earned the following block. You make foolish assumptions. The header is garbled in Linux entirely there is nothing available to extract with any tools.

      • just_another_person@lemmy.world
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        24 days ago

        You don’t understand how file formats work I guess. You can’t just ‘head’ an encoded file and expect a terminal to output what you want. Do some research.