ms-word, was: Re: anti-word

[Gregory Nowak]

Ok, but people also write in word in addition to reading in it when they're in windows.
Greg


On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 04:27:55PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 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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> > > > 
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