Mac from the nineties. Microsoft Word or Appleworks?

[DallyMessenger]

These files, even when opened in LibreOffice, came out as gibberish. I have a friend with the same problem. We have lots of valuable documents from this period.
I had an original Mac and then one of those iMacs with the coloured transparent container etc.
Here is a sample of what I get

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[oweng]

Duplicate of this question (with respect to Appleworks files) and this question (with respect to MS Works WPS files). If the files were created on a Mac they should open OK as LO now has reasonable support for legacy MacOS formats. Can you please upload / link to an example file for others to test? Thanks.

[DallyMessenger]

Oweng. Thanks - how and where do I upload?

[oweng]

You can edit the question and use the link button in the editing toolbar to upload a file to the site. If it is an unrecognised (unallowed) file format, just rename it to use a TXT extension (or similar) and let others know what the original file extension was. You can also upload elsewhere and edit the question to provide a link.

[osnola]

Hello,
clearly, LibreOffice has revert to the default filter(*). As Oweng says, it would be great to have a file to test ( if possible a zip file, so we can have access to its original resource fork ).

Notes:

• (*) we can also deduce from the result
  (if your sample includes the first
  line ) that the original file is
  either compressed or this file is
  neither a ClarisWorks file ( the
  chain “BOBO” will be present ) or a
  Microsoft Word file ( the second
  character must be a number ).
• if you have not tried with LibreOffice 4.3, it contains some new filters for some old Mac formats, so maybe …