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From: Doug Russell <drussell@saturn-tech.com>
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On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, Mike Smith wrote:

> Not quite as good, but perhaps more reliable.  It does a barely 
> tolerable job of reading Word documents.

Depends on what's in the files you are trying to read, of course...  It
certainly does a better job of reading most Word files I've tried than
Word does reading most Wordperfect files I've tried.  YMMV, of course!

Note to Corel:  

Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!

:)

Later......						<Doug>




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