Comment by ben_w
2 years ago
Oh, interesting. I should see if I can get my 22 year old coursework running in it.
Assuming I can get my source out of the Word document, because it predates git and I don't have the original source files: https://github.com/BenWheatley/A2-coursework
If you can't open it in a modern Office install, Microsoft used to have the option to download input filters for old and unusual formats.
It seems like you can write VBA to extract stuff from Microsoft Office files. It might be worth a try. Here is what I found: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49724/programmatically-e...
The code in this case is plain text within the word doc — the hard part is that I don't have a copy of Word from 2002-ish (I don't know the specific Office version my teachers used), and it's spread over 261 pages because I was having too much fun writing it.
ChatGPT can probably do it, but my experience is that it starts hallucinating well before you'd expect from the context length.