Created attachment 42665 [details] Word for DOS 5.5 .doc example file I note on the Wiki that the following comes under Easy Hacks: "Contribute old Word documents (Word 1 to 5) - It's hard to find documents in this old format. We need them to check the import filters (sw/filters/ww1) and if they are still working." I'm not sure exactly what is referred to by Word 1-5, version numbers of the .doc format, or versions of DOS, Mac or Windows applications, but the attached document was created in Word for DOS 5.5, and uses the same .doc format I believe as v5 and v6 of WfDOS. It contains just some basic formatting - nothing too complex. It's currently not handled at all well by Writer, which can only import it as an ASCII file, losing all of the formatting. It would be nice if Writer could deal with this file, and judging by the Wiki is something that wouldn't be outside of Writer's goals.
hehe, discovered this application/msword "outlier" document when writing some tooling to scrape out .doc files from our bugzilla for regression testing. Yes, this is the sort of thing we were looking for. The 1-5 is ambiguous because of the widespread confusion at this distance from the various versions as to which they refer to given the different numbering versions of different products on different platforms from the microsoft word family. Double checking on wikipedia, I see to my surprise that Word for Dos 5.5 is available for download from MS at the moment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word#cite_note-15
Marked this as *fixed*, because we got a sample for DOS 5.5. I wonder if the downloadable .exe works, and if it does if it has any save as other formats to e.g. get a word for windows version 1 document out of it. And/or samples of the older word 1 to 4 if the file format differed.
(In reply to comment #2) > Marked this as *fixed*, because we got a sample for DOS 5.5. I wonder if the > downloadable .exe works, and if it does if it has any save as other formats to > e.g. get a word for windows version 1 document out of it. And/or samples of the > older word 1 to 4 if the file format differed. The EXE works, but the only choices for saving are Word (that version), RTF and plain text.
A pity, well at least we got Microsoft Word 5.5 for DOS samples, and a route to generate some more of those if we need to.
*** Bug 39638 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 107463 [details] another example