From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 9 00:55:42 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D502F106566C for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2010 00:55:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from cpoproxy3-pub.bluehost.com (cpoproxy3-pub.bluehost.com [67.222.54.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A41FC8FC12 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2010 00:55:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 27998 invoked by uid 0); 9 Jun 2010 00:55:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by cpoproxy3.bluehost.com with SMTP; 9 Jun 2010 00:55:42 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=A0nBKd0avoMj1z7NEV36NhvxJK1LV24gUzRFfbM/NUsstLVXwQGjYBSYuQ5BxIwAOVBfdbtCs2ZOUzsDNU4ATmuVo4ElFlD6ZVVxLCOoD7S4BZCxYnr9qjTLdqg1O95i; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OM9a0-0006sF-VC for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:55:42 -0600 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:55:13 -0600 Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 18:55:13 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: <20100609005513.GE37528@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Questions References: <20100606203416.GF46089@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20100607035650.GA29350@guilt.hydra> <20100607163456.GB2102@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20100608151603.GB32431@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Dzs2zDY0zgkG72+7" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100608151603.GB32431@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: office apps X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:55:43 -0000 --Dzs2zDY0zgkG72+7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 08:16:03AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > On Jun 07 2010 22:12, Chris Hill wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Chip Camden wrote: > >=20 > > >[...] I do have clients who send me Word docs, and one who requires th= at=20 > > >I send them specs in Word format. For that, I guess I'm stuck using= =20 > > >some behemoth office tool, if only for converting from a different=20 > > >format. I'm currently doing that work on a Windows workstation, but I= 'd=20 > > >like to limit my involvement with Windows to only developing for it wh= en=20 > > >I must. > >=20 > > I have clients like that too. What I've done - only once or twice, and= =20 > > really just to be a dick - is to do my writeup in ASCII text, then `mv = foo=20 > > foo.doc`. There, it's in word format! And Word really can open the file= ,=20 > > so... > >=20 > That's great -- I'll have to remember that one. I sorta did that once. I sent someone a plaintext file. He double clicked the file, causing it to automatically open in Notepad, which puked on my Unix-style linebreaks. He asked me to give it to him in DOC format. I said he should just open it in another application, at which point he gave me his pathetic sob story about how he always double clicked a file to open it and if it doesn't work that way he can't open the file et cetera, et alii, ad infinitum, ad nauseam. To make a long story short (too late), I changed the filename from filename.txt to filename.doc and sent it to him again. He double-clicked, and it automatically opened the file in Word. I still find the gall of the man kind of surprising, demanding that I find some way to save the file in DOC format and re-email it to him when he could just open MS Word and use File > Open to browse to the file. I seem to recall he didn't want to be bothered figuring out how to Save As to change it into DOC format himself, either, even if he did get it open in MS Word, which makes the whole situation even more bizarre and aggravating for me. It was just the once that I did that, though. Aside from 1) requests for resumes and 2) files that I originally got from someone else in MS Office file formats, I haven't really had any need to deal with the DOC(X) and other MS Office formats. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --Dzs2zDY0zgkG72+7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkwO5nEACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKV9pwCeNZ5+u4w0CPAP5EyK7kzaqT73 AkYAoIf+pejs1J2nG1Q4JzrzKLgwW5je =ye8F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Dzs2zDY0zgkG72+7--