ms-word, was: Re: anti-word

Gregory Nowak gnowak1 at uic.edu
Fri Jan 11 15:49:14 EST 2002


I see the circle, I just wanted to play a little devil's advocate to see what your answer would be out of interest. Sorry if it annoyed you. Btw, what is wv?
Greg


On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 11:26:44AM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> 
> > Ok, but people also write in word in addition to reading in it when they're in windows.
> 
> Greg: We're going in circles here. You need something like wv in order to 
> read those Word files that people send out. You don't need to send them 
> Word files in order for them to read what you write in plain text or in 
> html, because they can perfectly well read your text or html using their 
> Word application on Windows.
> 
> Do you see the circle?
>  > 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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