anti-word

Gregory Nowak gnowak1 at uic.edu
Fri Jan 11 21:53:45 EST 2002


Yeah, I'll agree with that too. But then, isn't most or all of windblows (grin)?
Greg


On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:06:32PM -0500, Amanda Lee wrote:
> Because Word is designed for idiots!
> 
> Couldn't resist that one!
> 
> Amanda Lee
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
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> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 4:27 PM
> Subject: Re: anti-word
> 
> 
> > 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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