On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 02:14, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 04:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > Microsoft problems, MS Works is not compatible with MS Word. There is > no technical reason why this should be so; it's just a Microsoft device > to increase their profits.
I bet there is a technical reason why Works can't read Word & Excel files: there are so many different things that you can put in a Word doc, for example, (TOC, footnotes, endnotes, images, bibliographies, etc) that by the time you gave works the ability to read it, it would become Word itself. This is why SO6/OO6 can render .doc files better than AbiWord. A variation on a standard aphorism: Small, Fast, Featureful. Pick any 2. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | "I have created a government of whirled peas..." | | Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 12-May-2002, CNN, Larry King Live | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
