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Nick Andrew wrote:

> In <ys4stod03w.fsf_-_@tulyar.sdd.cegelecproj.co.uk> Dunstan_Vavasour <Dunstan_Vavasour@cegelecproj.co.uk> writes:
>
> >What they do is keep changing the internal formats so that old
> >versions quickly become unuseable.
>
> It occurred to me on discussing this issue that perhaps the save format
> (what is written to disk) may be closely related to the data structures
> used in the program.
>
> It may be that when the user "saves" a document that the in-memory data
> structures are dumped to disk with little or no formatting, which results
> in the oft-reported junk and deleted text in the output file. <snip>

I'm not a programmer, so take my comments here with a large grain of salt.  I recall a thread in this group from some
time ago that involved a Microsoft employee.  This employee described the file saving format as exactly that and
defended the practise for its simplicity.  Several replies followed deriding the method.  One guy even thanked the
employee for finally solving the riddle (to him) of how Word could manage to freeze up the computer during a simple
read or write process.
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