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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!izvestia.its.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newspump.sol.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!nntp.uio.no!uninett.no!news.uit.no!padde.ser.fm.uit.no!michael From: michael@padde.ser.fm.uit.no (Michael Hinz) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy Subject: Re: Word vs Latex Date: 4 Apr 1997 23:24:02 GMT Organization: You bet! Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5i42ii$1ai$1@padde.ser.fm.uit.no> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <5ffg7n$c69$1@mars.mcs.net> <5fknj1$bfb@web.nmti.com> <01bc29e6$f20ce700$0b9e32ca@development1> <5fs7sr$7fk@web.nmti.com> <01bc3704$ab51c170$4b6cb4c3@trischas> Reply-To: michael@fagmed.uit.no NNTP-Posting-Host: padde.ser.fm.uit.no X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:168525 comp.os.linux.networking:74617 comp.os.linux.setup:106341 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6608 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2949 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:58514 On 22 Mar 1997 20:55:53 GMT, VB <vb@ulm.netsurf.de> wrote: >Hey, did you miss RTF? Eh, you serious? If you are, just try to read RTF files written by one version of Word with another version. Seems they got their act (about) together with the (bad) binary file format, but RTF looks like just another debugging aid, with no intention to make it usable. If you said "DOS Text" or even "ANSI Text", now *that* is a readable format. Although why use Word to produce something like this... >Greetings, >VB. Michael -- Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam (For non-latiners: "I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.")