From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 20 17:05:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA14049 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 17:05:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from jedi.asc-net.com ([204.254.69.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA14036; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 17:05:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from jedi.asc-net.com ([204.254.69.20]) by jedi.asc-net.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA02740; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 17:10:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 17:10:54 -0800 (PST) From: Marty Bower To: Michael Smith cc: John Prince , se@FreeBSD.ORG, spaz@u.washington.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MSWord docs... In-Reply-To: <199703202336.KAA09871@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: X-mailer: Pine 3.95q (FreeBSD 2.2) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >From its help file: "Microsoft Word 97 has a different file format from earlier versions of Word." Alledgedly there is some form of converter for 6.0/95, enabling it to read 97 docs. 97 also has the option of saving in 6.0/95 format. MjB On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Michael Smith wrote: > Word 7 is Word 6 with different icons, basically. The file format > and structure are the same.