anti-word

[Janina Sajka]

Because everyone sitting in Word can perfectly easily retrieve a .txt or 
.html without knowing they did it.

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> Why do you say it isn't necessary to write word documents when that format is being used widely in the work place and academic settings today?
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:47:31AM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Dave Hunt wrote:
> > 
> > > ... It's called "antiword", ...   It
> > > cannot write MS Word files.
> > 
> > It isn't necessary to write MS-Word, it's only necessary to read it 
> > correctly. Users of Word can read text or HTML perfectly well.
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > -Dave
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org