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Article #1056Re: Currant Bun
From: Richard Caley
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 00:00
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In article <VA.00000857.007b34ac@one>, Stuart Grant (sg) writes: sg> `Proprietary' was your term, not mine. The point I wished to make was sg> that I can send/take a W98 generated file just about anywhere to just sg> about anyone and they'll have the means to read it. Er, onlybecause the whole world is continuously running a red queen's race, buying new versions of Office every year for no reason than because they need to to keep being able to read the files people send them. sg> Lots of people email me embedded MSWord documents (they just don't sg> grasp that they only have to copy/paste the text). I could sg> probably extract the text with a linux prog but what chance of sg> them being able to read it if I sent them a StarOffice file? Send them postscript. Proprietory but open and widely understood. If you want them to edit it rather than read it, send them plain text. Formatting just gets in the way of editing. -- Mail me as rjc not spt@cstr.ed.ac.uk _O_ |<
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From: Richard Caley <spt@cstr.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Currant Bun
Date: 2000/01/26
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