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Re: Anyone have any info about WORD's recent SGML release?

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From: Peter Flynn
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 08:52
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In article <CxHJAu.Eq3@mv.mv.com> kaikow@standards.com writes:

   Well, life happens to be difficult.
   I am forced to use Word to deal with many people that I have to send 
   documents to or to share editing tasks with. Word is not the right tool 
   to use, but it has become a de facto standard in many areas.

Sure, I wasn't attaching any blame to you, just continuing bafflement
at how these decisions get made in the light of all the evidence :-)

   Personally, I would much rather do everything in SGML, perhaps the 
   environment I am in will be there some day, not yet tho.

I dunno, there are a lot of jobs more suited to Word in an office
environment right now, while SGML software remains relatively
underused.

///Peter
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From: pflynn@curia.ucc.ie (Peter Flynn)
Subject: Re: Anyone have any info about WORD's recent SGML release?
In-Reply-To: kaikow@standards.com's message of Tue, 11 Oct 1994 01:40:06 GMT
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