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- From: jorisd@bcl1.seri.philips.nl (Joris D inhuurkracht)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 12 Apr 1996 14:58:46 GMT
- Organization: Philips Electronics B.V.
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- dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn) writes:
- : On Fri, 05 Apr 96 09:42:00 +0200, sm@mk2.maus.sauerland.de (Stefan
- : Mueller) wrote:
- :
- : >Hallo David,
- : >
- : >[ MS Soft is cheap and good ]
- : >
- : >And with File Formats which change with every release and are not
- : >understood by the rest of the world, if you use the "special features".
- : >
- : >MS Soft is quite nice -- if you only use MS products.
- :
- : They do? Tell me why I can directly load Word 7.0 files in Word 6.0,
- : then? Ditto with Excel 5 and 7. And of course, going down versions
- : (loading lower versions) isn't a problem. Word's file import features
- : are better than anything available on the Amiga.
-
- Try to load the same Word 7.0 in WP 6.1 (which has a Word 6.0 Import
- function) and you'll find out how compatible these formats really are!
-
- -Dennis.
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- Ing. D.M. Joris, Software Specialist,
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