From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 20 17:14:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA14612 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 17:14:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA14606; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 17:14:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id LAA10718; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 11:43:38 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199703210113.LAA10718@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: MSWord docs... In-Reply-To: from Marty Bower at "Mar 20, 97 05:10:54 pm" To: marty@asc-net.com (Marty Bower) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 11:43:38 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, johnp@lodgenet.com, se@FreeBSD.ORG, spaz@u.washington.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Marty Bower stands accused of saying: > >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. That's Office 97, which wasn't what I was talking about. I was specifically referring to Word 7, which uses the same format as 6. Regardless, this is off topic. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[