Re: Currant Bun

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From: Trevor Best
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 00:00

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Stuart Grant <sg@cwcom.net> wrote in message
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> about anyone and they'll have the means to read it. Lots of people
> email me embedded MSWord documents (they just don't grasp that they
> only have to copy/paste the text). I could probably extract the text

That's because it's easy, just choose "send" from the file menu and To and
CC boxes appear in word, that's why they do it.

> with a linux prog but what chance of them being able to read it if I
> sent them a StarOffice file?

OTOH about the subject and it's readers, a client of mine regularly sends
the locking file that word uses instead of the actual document, MSWord
cannot make of of that either :-)

> (I tried that StarOffice for W95 suite that came on a free CD recently.
> I wanted to draw a diagram and insert it into a letter to fax. The word
> processor wouldn't recognise or accept the graphics format within the
> same suite of programs. So much for StarOffice.)
> Stuart Grant

I created some great graphics for my website in GIMP, nothing recognised the
.jpgs created from that, not even netscape.

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From: "Trevor Best" <trevor@besty.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Currant Bun
Date: 2000/01/26
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