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		dividedbyzero on Aug 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SC-IM – An ncurses spreadsheet program for the ter... > You’re pretty much guaranteed to own your data forever. Don't I have that with Excel too, in practice?

Hackbraten on Aug 30, 2020 [–]

I’m not sure. Two observations:

I have dozens of Word documents created on Windows in the mid-90s that current Word versions refuse to open.

Excel for Mac keeps subtly adding four years to every date field if the file was originally created in Excel for Windows.

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