Re: word format
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 02:14, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 04:46, ALL37@aol.com wrote:
[snip]
> Microsoft problems, MS Works is not compatible with MS Word. There is
> no technical reason why this should be so; it's just a Microsoft device
> to increase their profits.
I bet there is a technical reason why Works can't read Word & Excel
files: there are so many different things that you can put in a Word
doc, for example, (TOC, footnotes, endnotes, images, bibliographies,
etc) that by the time you gave works the ability to read it, it would
become Word itself.
This is why SO6/OO6 can render .doc files better than AbiWord.
A variation on a standard aphorism:
Small, Fast, Featureful. Pick any 2.
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