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Re: I suppose it is up to us to post some content and scroll down the sabotagers

* 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?

-- 
GNU/Linux rox, Tux!

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