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- From: haroldk@stack.urc.tue.nl (Harold Klink)
- 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: 17 Apr 1996 17:41:44 +0200
- Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
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- kruisweg@flatearth.xs4all.nl (Ruud van de Kruisweg) writes:
-
- >On 15 Apr 1996 11:14:56 +0200, haroldk@stack.urc.tue.nl (Harold Klink)
- >wrote:
-
- >>dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn) writes:
-
- >>>Tell me how you'd load a Word 6.0 or Word 2.0 file, then?
- >>>I suspect that is the most common file format at my office, and
- >>>thousands of other offices. What would you do? With graphics and
- >>>such intact, please.
- >>
- >>What a buch of nonsense. You're dodging the argument here! What we were
- >>discussing was 'importing files'. If I would ask you to import a WordWorth
- >>file (And don't come with that silly argument: I don't need that) in Word
- >>6.0 or A FinalWriter file into Word 6.0, what would you do?!
-
- >Word 6.0/7.0 is (along with WP 4.2/5.1/6.0) one of the de facto word
- >processor text format standards. If your program supports Word and WP
- >files, you'll be able to share your documents with non-Amiga owners
- >and vice versa. If this is not the case, you'll be stuck in the Amiga
- >world, since Word, WordPerfect, AmiPro, Describe or any other PC/Mac
- >program supporting an Amiga word processor text format is nil.
-
- Again a nice dodging of the question, this time by someone else. Don't
- defend Corn, just answer the question: I got a FinalWriter document or a
- Wordworth document. It needs to be converted into Word BY WORD ITESELF. Can
- Word do it?! No, thank you very much! Of course I know that WORD and WP are
- the most used wordprocessors, but that's not the issue here....
-
- On the other hand, on the Amiga it should be possible to write a datatype
- for Word/WP filehandling. Now, is that possible on the peecee too?! A (sort
- of) datatype that handles FinalWriter files (No, they don't end with .fw,
- sorry!) or for WordWorth (Also no .ww here)
-
- Harold.
-