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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 12:21:52 -0700
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Warwick Allison wrote:
] byron@cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff) writes:
]
] >Word6
] >Word6
] >Word6
] >Word6
] >Word6
] >Word6
] >Word6
]
] Too short sighted. Did Netscape go and write a Word6 compatible
] WWW browser? No. Applications *don't* live forever (Word6
] cannot load Word3 documents, for example).
For what it's worth, "The File Formats Handbook" by Born states
that Word6 format is not documented because it is proprietary
and only available under non-disclosure.
So you would have a hell of a time legally writing a clone that
could read the file formats in any event.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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