Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:00:55 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: jonas <jonas.de.buhr@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IE in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <43303237.2000105@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <20050920171953.32974328@localhost> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNKEFMFCAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <200509201435.20533.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> <43301427.2030607@ashleymoran.me.uk> <200509201524.38564.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> <20050920171953.32974328@localhost>
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jonas wrote: >hi! > >On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:24:38 +0100 >RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> wrote: > > >>Because it's common for companies and recruitment agencies to specify >>MS Word documents only. It's a de facto standard. >> >> > >this may be a bit offtopic :) ... >but i think we agree that this situation is not good. >is there any 'official' standard for office documents like there is for >html, css, xml etc.? > > Probably there are several "official" standards. If Microsoft ever invades the EU and wins, then there will be one ;-) More seriously: [kadmin@archangel][~] # file fooresume.doc fooresume.doc: Rich Text Format data, version 1, ANSI --- seems to indicate that the "American National Standards Institute" has a standard for "Rich Text Format", which IIRC, was invented by Microsoft many a long year ago.... see, for example: http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/RTF-Spec-1.0.txt >if not, are there any efforts to create one? >if such a standard would be created by an international institution and >for example governments start/plan using it MS would be forced to adapt >it... > > > Hmm, I sort of doubt it. Not unless they actually *lost* a lawsuit. And their "RTF" has already been "standardized", hrm? Anyway.... FWIW, both TextMaker (www.softmaker.de) and AbiWord (and I'm sure probably Star Office, Open Office, Koffice, etc.) make a decent *.doc file that looks good in the versions of MS Word I have around here. I don't know about the latest "Office this year" though. A major complaint with MS it that *.doc is quite a moving target ... and of course, they aren't publishing on sourceforge.net.... Kevin Kinsey
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