From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 18 13:49:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A6A1C37B419 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:49:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 41992 invoked by uid 100); 18 Feb 2002 21:49:51 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15473.30462.138292.949043@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 15:49:50 -0600 To: dmmcf@uiuc.edu (D. Michael McFarland) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Advice sought re MS Office compatibility In-Reply-To: <863czylumy.fsf@ness.aae.uiuc.edu> References: <15472.44937.241831.56766@guru.mired.org> <863czylumy.fsf@ness.aae.uiuc.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.46 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.5-STABLE-i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG D. Michael McFarland types: > "Mike Meyer" writes: > > Of course, the best thing to do if you're collaborating on a document > > is to load it into *your* favorite application for dealing with > > documents of that type, do your work, and send it back to them in that > > applications format. A truly fitting sabotage. > But these collaborators are my friends, and the documents are important. > I wouldn't want to sabotage my friends. Unless, of course, it's for > their own good. ;-) Well, the story - which I now understand is false - is that the original sabotage was for the good of the public. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message