I believe it that C8.5 can load the .duf files (I don' t have it), therefore the users of Carrara are not forgotten.
What is not normal, it is to remove these posts, I don't understand the reason.
The potential buyers must be informed all the same of this change and thus upgrade their soft if they want to continue with these products.
When Carrara won't work with the Poser files, that will be the end for a lot of users.
Business is buisiness !

Dudu Duf format only works in C8.5 or newer.

Anyone still running C8 (or earlier) cannot use DUF files.

The nice thing was many vendors offered Poser files that worked like a champ in earlier versions of Carrara and Poser 9 (and earlier)