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On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:14:06 -0600,
Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2008-02-22, Jim Richardson <warlock@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:16:59 +0100,
>> Hadron <hadronquark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>
>>>> * Tim Smith peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>>>
>>>>> In article <UYidnUFlnevJhCPanZ2dnUVZ_gidnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>>>> alt <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Why should the document format support all of Microsoft's (undocumented)
>>>>>> legacy crap? Shouldn't that be the job of the application?
>>>>>
>>>>> The application needs to be able to save information about that legacy
>>>>> "crap", hence there is a need for some way to do that in the document
>>>>> format.
>>>>
>>>> Where's the 'need' for that? You want to have access to all features of
>>>> those old documents? Keep an old copy of the proprietary operating
>>>> system and proprietary Word processor around.
>>>
>>> LOL. I am not sure if it is stupidity or naivety on your part. Did it
>>> never cross your mind that you need to access the contents on an
>>> uptodate OS? For *obvious* reasons I won't even bother to go into.
>>>
>>
>> makes no sense. We are discussing document formats, not the OS. Are you
>> saying that the MS document formats rely on the OS for something?
>>
>
> They might - for OLE automation. In other words, there are lots of
> things besides other documents that can be embedded in a word doc.
>
So not only do you have to have the right version of MS-Office, but the
right version of MS-Windows too? "Sorry, you can't read that document,
please buy a new computer first"
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