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Software corps that are second-best at dealing with their own native formats
Monday, May 28, 2007 at 1:25 pm
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Posted by gewg_ (3488 messages posted)

|Yes, there are incompatibilities in the .DOC files
|when handled by different versions of Word.
|And they can corrupt the files and make them unreadable.
|For that, Gewg directed me to articles that showed that
|Open Office's Writer can read even damaged .DOC files.
| dhm

In the same vein (AutoCAD *.DWG files), this tickled me:
The Usenet Archive -- sci.electronics.design (MooseFET)

Written in response to:: re: Upgrading windows (dhm: Saturday, May 19, 2007 at 5:00 am)

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Upgrading windows (s.jester: Fri, May 18, 2007, 3:37 pm)

re: Upgrading windows (gewg_: Fri, May 18, 2007, 4:14 pm)

re: Upgrading windows (dhm: Sat, May 19, 2007, 5:00 am)

Dealing with M$ documents and "versions" of M$Office (gewg_: Sat, May 19, 2007, 10:44 am)

re: Dealing with M$ documents and "versions" of M$Office (dhm: Sat, May 19, 2007, 3:23 pm)

Software corps that are second-best at dealing with their own native formats (gewg_: Mon, May 28, 2007, 1:25 pm)

re: Upgrading windows (Keith Stanier: Sat, May 19, 2007, 5:21 am)

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