* Tim Smith fired off this tart reply:
> In article <5248752.XohuQhIHx2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> everytime you say things like this i just think of that cult of people
>> who send around .doc files. i dont want to communicate with people who
>> talk in .doc format, but they do not wish to use something else, so
>> they discredit those without word. --Ed, c.o.l.a.
>
> Someone should tell him about OpenOffice. It can read .doc files fine.
> (Or did I get my calendar mixed up, and this is a "nothing can read
> .doc" week? It's hard to keep up with the flip-flopping on this...)
I've found reading to be okay. Except I did experience some problems
with 64-bit OO, where paging down a Word document would crash OO.
Probably a binary data type not yet handled correctly with 64-bit code.
As for the flip-flopping about the reading, I don't get you. Is there
one person who keeps going back and forth on this issue?
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GNU/Linux rox, Tux!
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