Re: Resurgence of non-mainstr
By: Boraxman to Kaelon on Wed May 04 2022 08:41 pm
> That is such a shame... I've moved away from proprietary software and
> propreitary formats, to storing important data in as an accessible format as
> you can. Plain text, or markup, or some schema that is still plain text
> (ie, XML or even an Emacs ORG mode file).
>
> You may lose the software which manages it, but a text editor can still
> reveal the data.
I love this, and it's so true. I have a lot of WordPerfect 5.1 documents that,
fortunately, I can still read on DOSBox, but if I just save them in standard pla
in text, I'll at least never have to worry about having to access that content t
hrough an interpreter that may, for all we know, suddenly stop working in some n
ot-so-distant future.
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